"Helmet system replaces heads-up display on F-35s"

On Apr 30, 8:24 am, Mike wrote:
Geostrategy-Direct
Week of May 2, 2007
MILITARY TECHNOLOGY

Helmet system replaces heads-up display on F-35s


Like this one?
http://www.eurofighter.com/et_as_co_hm.asp

* tomcervo:
Helmet system replaces heads-up display on F-35s

Like this one?
http://www.eurofighter.com/et_as_co_hm.asp

Or the HMS the MiG-29 already got in 1986..

Helmet mounted displays are nothing new. The only novelty is that the
JSF uses it as a replacement of a conventional HUD.

Benjamin

On Mon, 07 May 2007 08:07:54 +0200, Benjamin Gawert
wrote:

* tomcervo:
Helmet system replaces heads-up display on F-35s

Like this one?
http://www.eurofighter.com/et_as_co_hm.asp

Or the HMS the MiG-29 already got in 1986..

Helmet mounted displays are nothing new. The only novelty is that the
JSF uses it as a replacement of a conventional HUD.

Benjamin

We're talking several generations of difference here in terms of what
the HMDS is offering.

It's like saying the ME-262 already had jet engines in 1945, so what's
new about the F-22.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
www.thunderchief.org
www.thundertales.blogspot.com

* Ed Rasimus:

Helmet mounted displays are nothing new. The only novelty is that the
JSF uses it as a replacement of a conventional HUD.

We're talking several generations of difference here in terms of what
the HMDS is offering.

Well, the difference is not *that* huge. The only thing that is done in
the F-35 is to move the complete display part from the HUD to the HMDS
(which IMHO does make sense, I wonder why this hasn't been done before
already).

Benjamin

Benjamin Gawert wrote:

Well, the difference is not *that* huge. The only thing that is done
in the F-35 is to move the complete display part from the HUD to the
HMDS (which IMHO does make sense, I wonder why this hasn't been done
before already).

It all got started in South Africa of all places; they hooked the
tracking systems of their Kukri IR AAMs into the helmet so that the
pilot only had to look at the target to slew the optics of the missiles
around and let them lock onto it.
From that point forward, it was simply a matter of getting the mass of
the helmet down to the point where it wouldn't snap the pilot's neck if
he had to eject, while adding more and more to its capabilities.
I'm sure our Huey gunner's helmets with their automated gun-slewing
mechanisms also played a big part in the overall history; but you don't
pull high Gs in a Huey unless you crash.

Pat