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Posted by LazFX on May-16-2007 05:39:

Take me to your leader....

Trippy....

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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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you know why does this helmet remind me of what the gods of the ancients looked like.... You know, the whole Chariots of the Gods type shit.... hmmmmm

Posted by DJ Shibby on May-17-2007 10:32:

And yet we're still using toasters and microwaves back on the civilian front.