Most fighter aircraft cockpits with the heads of measures designed display (HUD), which projects vital information on the glass screen in front of the pilot so he can pay more attention to what is happening outside the plane, not in the documents and displays inside the plane.

Until now, that is. That's because the Lightning II F35 Joint Strike Fighter - a joint effort with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Northrop Grumman, and British Aerospace - became the first fighter to be developed decades without HUD. It thanked the fighter pilot's new, albeit frightening, best friend, a combat helmet, which uses a miniature version of the HUD within a helmet.


The F-35 Helmet Mounted Display System (HDMS), in the Vision Systems International, offers a wide field of Binocular-View, an integrated day / night capability, high accuracy head tracking hardware and software, digital image source for the vision helmet display symbols, Custom helmet shell, and lightweight liner and suspension system for maximum pilot comfort.

As a result, the potential for fighter pilot to "paint" a few goals, even in extreme angles away from the axis, and then track them with a simple turn of the head. This allows great tactical advantage when "dusting it in furball" (getting in the air battle).





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