RA5001 Headset

ANR, communication intelligibility and situational awareness

RA5001 Raptor combines monaural or binaural communication, hearing protection, intelligibility and situational awareness into a lightweight, comfortable and extremely rugged design. It is ideal for use with next-generation commercial and military intercom systems in wheeled vehicles, shelters, and tactical operation centres. The push-to-talk (PTT) unit reduces the head borne weight and allows users to select between microphone, listen-only and radio modes.

NSN 5965-01-669-0250

RA5001 Key Features

RA5001 headset delivers combined Passive and Active Noise Reduction (ANR) for excellent speech intelligibility and hearing protection, in a slim profile compatible with helmets.

The specially contoured earcups, ear cushions and adjustable neckband ensure enhanced comfortable fit and reduced fatigue when used with the helmet. The RA5001 headset is a comfortable fit under standard ballistic helmets, including PASGT, ACH and derivatives, or with a soft liner and our associated helmets. The ear-cup design ensures unobstructed cheek-to-stock weld when operating weapons and no interference with body-armour/collars. The push-to-talk (PTT) control module is typically worn on the vest, attached via large MOLLE-compatible reversible equipment clip.

Passive and Active Noise Reduction (ANR) features protect the hearing of users exposed to medium levels of continuous noise. The RA5001 headset achieves medium to high levels of noise attenuation. The user can enable hear-through to hear local environment sounds at safe levels (<85dBA), to maintain situational awareness of hazards or permit face-to-face conversations without defeating the hearing protection.

The headset downlead is factory configured and terminated into the required connector with pinout and audio levels to match the attached equipment, enabling the headset to support mono or stereo communications. The in-line push-to-talk (PTT) control unit contains a three-position PTT toggle switch, hear-through on/off button and a respirator/gas mask microphone socket (overrides the boom microphone). The headset draws external power from the attached equipment for Active Noise Reduction (ANR) and electronic hear-through features (13V to 33V DC supply required).

Specifications

• The headset achieves noise attenuation levels of 23 dB SNR, for safer longer missions
• High intelligibility binaural communications in high noise and binaural hear-through for accurate situational awareness
• Resistant to ferrous particles for continuous use in high iron environments
• Battery powered hear-through microphones, for accurate situational awareness running on AA battery