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Predator-Style Helmets Allow Pilots to See Through Planes
nitroy2k writes "It is only the neck and shoulders that prove there is a human being in there somewhere. And this isn't any Star Trek or Final Fantasy kind of trick, but the next generation of RAF fighter pilots' look, which kinda makes you wish you were in the army." And you thought Air Wolf had badass headgear.
Within a couple of decades using a fighter aircraft with a human inside will be as quaint as using a missile with pigeons as the guidance system.
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It's not so much about getting ready for war, as it is deterrence. Making sure the potential aggressor is aware of the risk so that he refrains from aggression. (See Iran). You don't need another cold war for a reason to have bigger guns than the next guy...
No words of wisedom here.
Right... whenever you have more than one country who thinks they are a superpower, you have a good chance that there will be a war.
A good country that want's to remain around needs to have a strong defense. Just because the current battlefield isn't so obvious doesn't mean the next one won't be.
Bill
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The helmet isn't "Predator-Style" in the slightest. No thermography vision at all. And more to the point, even if it had it, that certainly wouldn't allow you to "look through an airplane". Moron bloggers and the tabloids just saw a helmet that was ugly and thought of Predator.
It's really closest to a VR helmet, hooked up to cameras on the F-35 JSF to give pilots a 360 view.
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No, but it is one of them nonetheless. Militaries have always recruited in part on having a really smart uniform in which you'd look really, really good - that one goes back millennia. And I reckon the opportunity to wear a badass TIE-fighter style helmet with awesome cyber-vision kit will indeed be a bonus for RAF recruitment. That thing is really cool.
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Obviously, when a site releases an news story, their the ones who should be credited with it. So I guess they shouldn't be attributing this story to some under-bandwidth blogging content thief in the first place. let alone doing so in a way that no one can read the damn article because of some seriously lacking forethought of the submitter or the site in question.