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Configuration
| Specification | FÉLIN | M1 helmet |
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| Type | infantry combat system[source] | Combat helmet[source] |
| Designer | Safran Electronics & Defense[source] | Major Harold G. Sydenham[source] |
| Components | modified FAMAS rifle with a host of other electronics, clothing, pouches, and body armour[source] | — |
| Helmet | integral SPECTRA helmet fitted with real-time positioning and information system, and with light amplifiers for night vision[source] | — |
| Power supply | two rechargeable Li-ion batteries |
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| Electronics | computer unit, manager unit, radio, man-machine interface, GPS, cables and connector[source] | — |
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| Communication | works by bone vibrations (bone conduction transducer)[source] | — |
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| Sight technology | uncooled infrared sensors, combined with adapted magnifying optics[source]FRF2precisionriflesight component only | — |
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| Country of origin | France[source]Inventory Origin column; table 3, row 2, cell 2; revision 1374575395; retrieved 2026-09-30 | — |
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| Place of origin | — | United States[source] |
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| In service | — | 1941–1985 (US)[source] |
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| Used by | — | See Users for details[source] |
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| Wars | — | World War II Chinese Civil War Indonesian National Revolution Internal conflict in Myanmar Korean War Hukbalahap Rebellion First Indochina War Cuban Revolution Algerian War Civil conflict in the Philippines Vietnam War Suez Crisis Laotian Civil War Congo Crisis Guatemalan Civil War Portuguese Colonial War Nicaraguan Revolution Colombian conflict South African Border War Dominican Civil War Six-Day War Nigerian Civil War Football War Cambodian Civil War Ethiopian Civil War Ogaden War Eritrean War of Independence War of Attrition Black September Yom Kippur War Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Turkish invasion of Cyprus Western Sahara War Lebanese Civil War Salvadoran Civil War Sino-Vietnamese War Internal conflict in Peru 1982 Lebanon War Iran–Iraq War Falklands War United States invasion of Grenada United States invasion of Panama Somali Civil War Gulf War Croatian War of Independence Bosnian War Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa[source] |
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| Manufacturer | — | McCord Radiator and Manufacturing Company and Schlueter Manufacturing Company[source] |
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| No. produced | — | 22 million (1945)[source] |
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| Reported operators | — |
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