F-35 Combat Plane Helmet Display System

[dutchmasterflex]

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.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/combat-he...ies-260482.php

[5vz-fe]

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[Schwalbe]

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More info here: http://www.codeonemagazine.com/archi...ice/index.html

[5vz-fe]

mmm Carbon fibre......could use this as racing helmet, wonder if the display can be modified to provide clipping point for the corner lol

[dutchmasterflex]

woops, forgot to put the source link. updated first post.

I want one of these for my desktop

[saadie]

that girls needs to grow her brows ..

the helmet is cool ....

the first one with everything intregated within the shield 8) 8) 8)

[stmoritzer]

cool, nice find

[ARMAN]

...Beyond making the pilot look like a spooky insect...

that exactly that crossed my mind looking at the pic