05-15-2007, 11:11 AM
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F-35 Combat Plane Helmet Display System
Bad ass.
Originally Posted by Gizmodo.com
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.
Beyond making the pilot look like a spooky insect (comic book nerd moment: the Morpheus helmet from Neil Gaiman's Sandman comes to mind), the F-35 HDMS is loaded with all kinds of amazing goodies, like extreme off-axis targeting and head tracking "providing the pilot with unprecedented situational awareness and tactical capability." The helmet was developed by Vision Systems International, a company that has other quite weird designs that are already operational, like the DASH and the JHMCS. Technical specs and another image of the F-35 HMDS after the jump.
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http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/combat-he...ies-260482.php
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05-15-2007, 11:19 AM
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Welcome to earth 0X
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05-15-2007, 12:00 PM
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05-15-2007, 12:08 PM
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mmm Carbon fibre......could use this as racing helmet, wonder if the display can be modified to provide clipping point for the corner lol
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05-15-2007, 12:43 PM
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woops, forgot to put the source link. updated first post.
I want one of these for my desktop
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05-15-2007, 02:15 PM
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that girls needs to grow her brows ..
the helmet is cool ....
the first one with everything intregated within the shield 8) 8) 8)
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05-16-2007, 06:07 AM
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cool, nice find
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05-16-2007, 06:54 AM
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...Beyond making the pilot look like a spooky insect...
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that exactly that crossed my mind looking at the pic
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