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F-35 Joint Striker Fighter helmet renders the plane nearly invisible
This ain't your papa's flight helmet. Designed for pilots of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the helm you see above will allow pilots to virtually see through the aircraft around them, giving them a wide field of view ahead and superimposing an Infrared image of the world below onto their visors at night. The helmet also operates in tandem with the system of "symbology" the aircraft uses rather than a traditional heads-up display, allowing information about the plane — navigation, weapon systems, system status, etc — to be projected directly onto the pilot's helmet. The F-35 JSF is the first fighter jet in 50 years not to use a HUD.
The helmet is being built by Vision Systems International and Helmet Integrated Systems, and tested by the Royal Air Force's Centre for Aviation Medicine. The F-35 JSF is often hailed as the next generation of fighter craft, so having a cool new helmet that looks fresh off of a sci-fi set is only fitting.
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By osiris7 at 11:47 AM ON 11/17/07
Science as the handmaiden of war, again?
By ktlam1955 at 2:48 PM ON 12/07/07
Reminds me of the TIE fighter pilots from the Star Wars movie.
By osiris9137 at 3:55 PM ON 02/04/08
Cool, more money wasted
By Daily Lark at 10:21 PM ON 05/11/08
This is the new helmet-mounted display system for the F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter. The helmet is designed to provide pilots with binocular-wide field-of-view, give night vision abilities and scare enemy pilots at first sight. It was used for the first time last April, making the F-35 the first combat plane without a cockpit-mounted heads-up display in a very long time.
By raker at 10:24 PM ON 05/26/08
It makes you look like you have green glowing eyes...thats ok...especially when you eject and the enemy sees green eyes...but turn it RED and you got another siting of the devil and any other associated monster, just run through the jungles of Vietnam with that on..would be great to terrorize the othr team in paintball
By Plinkus Doofry at 10:15 AM ON 08/01/08
What the HELL are you doing paintballing in vietnam anyway!?...
By eee5616 at 2:01 PM ON 08/13/08
If it works and saves lives good job
By Elmar at 4:25 PM ON 11/01/08
if i ever got to use it i'd much rather use this than the HUD simply cause of the "system of "symbology" the aircraft uses" and that is so much simpler cause instead of the pilot constantly reading numbers and then translating values into meaningful data this will do that all for me
By RSole at 9:02 PM ON 07/21/09
It's "head-up display", not "heads-up". You only have one head.
By SgtCar at 2:29 PM ON 07/22/09
No it's Heads-Up Display. I've worked Fighter Aircraft for 10 years.
By handle at 12:41 PM ON 07/28/09
He looks like a dog or an ox or a water bufallo.
By handle at 12:48 PM ON 07/28/09
Very funny. I hadn't had a laugh so hard. The funniest thing I've ever seen. You're in one of the most deadliest jets then you wear a helmet that makes u look like a water bufalo. Very funny.
By FighterPilot at 8:43 PM ON 08/31/09
LOL. Maybe someone out there has two heads. Some foreigners from afar. Hahaha. According to a Dash One, it's Head-Up-Display.
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LOL. Maybe someone out there has two heads. Some foreigners from afar. Hahaha. According to a Dash One, it's Head-...More »