New RAF helmet allows pilots to shoot down enemy jets by looking at them.

[Ponce]

America will get the plans from the British, the state of Israel will get the plans from America and then China will get the plans from the state of Israel.........
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The ultimate death stare: New RAF helmet allows pilots to shoot down enemy jets by looking at them.

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:13 AM on 4th January 2011

Pilot can glance at an aircraft he wants to fire a missile at by using his mind
It looks no more high-tech than any other fighter pilot helmet.
But this £250,000 headset allows RAF pilots to shoot down planes simply by looking at them.
The ‘Striker’ Integrated Display Helmet marks one of the biggest leaps forward in attack capabilities in military history.
How it works: The £250,000 'Striker' Integrated Display Helmet allows RAF pilots to shoot down planes simply by looking at them. As long as the enemy's aircraft is in sight, a missile can be directed towards it
All a pilot has to do is glance at an enemy aircraft and then steer a missile towards it with his, or her, mind.
Targets pop-up in the pilot's visor, at which point he can select by voice command and fire.
As long as the enemy's aircraft is in sight - whether that be below, above or to either side - a missile can be directed towards it.
The breakthrough brings to an end the century-old concept of the aerial dogfight, in which one plane must be directly behind another in order to hit it with firepower.

The innovative two-part helmet design has been co-developed with aircrew and logistic support engineering participation.
It works by using tiny optical sensors in the Striker helmet, which are then picked up by further sensors in the cockpit.
In flight: The helmet has undergone extensive testing in RAF Typhoon aircraft
'It means the end of the dogfight,' leading pilot Mark Bowman told The Sun.
'Traditionally you have to get behind an aircraft to lock on. With this, I steer the weapons with my head.'

The helmet has been developed by Britain's BAE Systems and has been subjected to extensive flight trials in RAF Typhoon planes.
A spokesperson for BAE said: 'An advanced optical head tracker is integrated into the helmet system to provide a high accuracy/low latency solution for low, medium, and high altitude operations.
'While the system has been designed for the Eurofighter Typhoon, its modular design can be applied to all platforms, both rotary and fixed wing.'


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[SLV^GLD]

The technology for brainwave translation into what amounts to tactile control is relatively new and has a LOT of attention from a LOT of interested parties.

Other than that aspect, which is really only alluded to in the blurb, the technology for the pilot to lock onto a target based on a visual field display is actually relatively old and was featured on some "state of war technology" TV special sometime before the year 2000. The demonstration I witnessed involved a small HUD type device between the pilot's eye and his FOV. The pilot still manually instructed the targeting system to acquire with hand controls and he still manually fired weapons with hand controls but the actual target acquisition intelligence was processed by the device he was effectively looking through. From what I recall the device's optical mechanisms were solely directed towards the pilot's eye and any positioning to determine direction was performed by sensors in his helmet. I do recall the acquisition system's resolution was fine enough for him to destroy a an aerial drone target that was simultaneously dropping a decoy which was intended to defeat the acquisition system.

The unfortunate shortcoming with that system, and I suspect this system, was that the pilot had to maintain visual contact with the target.

I swear the tech in that demo was named Stryker as well.

[Ponce]

SLV?..........yes, you are right........I believe that in the old tv series "Air Wolfe" the pilot also had such a helmet but only for the machine guns........in real life the armed forces also have such helmets.

[MNeagle]

The unfortunate shortcoming with that system, and I suspect this system, was that the pilot had to maintain visual contact with the target.



Yes, huge drawback.

[Ponce]

I don't know what is going on, right now we can lock and shoot a missile (but it takes to long) with this helmets they should be able to do the same thing........look at the enemy and it locks on him right away, shoot and fly away.