Aviation Helmet Designs & Helmet Mounted Systems

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BAE's Striker helmet gives fighter pilots 'X-ray vision'
By Katia Moskvitch of BBC UK.

When a pilot in a Euro fighter Typhoon jet glances down, he doesn't see a steel-grey floor. Instead he sees clouds and maybe sheep and cows in green fields below.
If he were to spot an enemy down there, or anywhere near the aircraft, he would not need to point the plane towards the target.He would simply look at it - through the solid hull of the plane - make sure that a tiny symbol displayed on his helmet's visor was aligned with the object, press a button and fire. The pilot is wearing BAE Systems' Striker HMSS helmet, the UK defence company's latest development. Putting augmented reality technology - as used in video games - to military use is the latest goal for helmet makers around the world.
The plane's sensors provide the pilot with X-ray vision-like imagery”
David CenciottiFormer Italian Air Force officer, says.
Cameras all around the aircraft are wirelessly linked to BAE's helmet; the system checks in which direction the pilot is looking, and then displays the exact view on the visor, in real time. Striker incorporates a helmet-mounted display (HMD), designed to help the pilot communicate with the plane. HMD is a step forward from the so-called head-up displays (HUD) - the transparent screens in front of the pilot that first appeared in the 1970s. They show key data, such as the altitude, speed and direction, allowing pilots to keep their eyes on the view ahead instead of constantly looking down to check their instruments. HUDs also display targets - but to aim, the pilot has to maneuver the aircraft accordingly. The military around the world started using HMDs in the 1990s; nowadays, they are becoming more and more advanced.
Helmet-mounted displays made by a US company VSI are also among the most advanced, providing the pilot with X-ray-like vision
"If a pilot wears a Striker helmet - which is essentially a helmet with an integrated display - when he sees something on the ground he can just turn his head, put a symbol across on to the point of interest, press a button, and the system will calculate the object's co-ordinates," says Alan Jowett of BAE Systems. With a helmet-mounted display, you could actually control a UAV equipped with weapons from the jet” Peter Robbie EADS.
"The aircraft can then turn its sensors, cameras or weapons in that direction - so it allows a dialogue directly between the plane and the pilot."
Night vision
Pilots from a number of countries routinely wear Striker HMSS on training exercises but it has not yet been used in combat. BAE Systems says its helmet is the most advanced in the world but there are other companies which can make a claim to that title. California-based Vision Systems International (VSI) has created a helmet-mounted display called HMDS Gen II, specifically designed for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter stealth jet, which is currently under development. The plane has been designed without a head-up display, so getting the right MD is paramount. Like Striker, HMDS Gen II integrates infrared imaging, night vision and a virtual HUD, showing data right in front of the pilot's eyes.
BAE Systems' Striker helmet has been designed to help the pilot communicate with the fighter jet
"All of the plane's sensors along with a set of cameras mounted on the jet's outer surfaces feed the system, providing the pilot with X-ray vision-like imagery," says David Cenciotti, a military aviation journalist and former Italian Air Force officer. Says, “In real life, there is simply no reset button”. Andrew BrookesRetired RAF pilot says, "He can see in all directions, and through any surface, with all the information needed to fly the plane and to cue weapons projected on to the visor." "The most used helmet-mounted display in the world is JHMCS, also made by VSI."
Playing the game
In future, full-display helmets could lead to the deployment of unmanned drones from the sky, says Peter Robbie, vice-president of business development at European aerospace and defence firm EADS. "If you're flying a fighter plane with a helmet-mounted display, you could actually control a UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] equipped with weapons from the jet," he says.

Alan Jowett of BAE Systems explains how the Striker generation of helmets is tested
"The UAV would be an additional weapons carrier, and the pilot could pass targeting information to it. "So if he sees a target, by pressing a button it would become the unmanned vehicle's target. The pilot could authorise it to drop a missile and then monitor through his helmet where it is going to go. "This type of monitoring already happens now - the pilot has a laser pointed on to the target, and it is what the weapon goes after. If at the last minute he sees, for instance, an ambulance turn up, he can make the weapon miss the target." Such developments, along with the pinpoint accuracy of missiles on a modern aeroplane, could help save lives by reducing collateral damage. But one retired RAF pilot says that adopting too much technology worries him. "The biggest computer in my day, in the 1970s and 1980s, was the human brain. Now the human brain is in the business of managing all the data the plane is feeding to it," says Andrew Brookes, a former wing commander. The F-35 has been designed without a head-up display
"You're not flying - the computer does the flying. You just sit in an armchair, so to speak, and manage the battle space, manage all the inputs that are coming around from miles away, and a lot of it is fused under the screen in the helmet in front of your eyes. "And while the precision power is awesome, and the intelligence-gathering capability is awesome, you become an all-seeing being in the sky. "That's frightening when you think about it - as everything becomes more technological, there's less and less of the human flying element, and some people may not realise they are making a transition from a video game in their living room to a big video game in a conflict.
"And in real life, there is simply no reset button."

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Photo: Israeli Air Force F-15I backseater self-portrait clearly shows advanced DASH helmet August 27, 2012
Posted by David Cenciotti in : Military Aviation , add a comment
Few months after releasing a cool self-portrait of an F-15I backseater during an inverted climb, the Israeli Air Force has just released another interesting picture.

The picture show an F-15I’s WSO (Weapon System Officer) as his plane breaks from a formation (whose remaining two elements are visible above the aircraft in foreground).

The photograph provides a close-up view of the DASH (Display And Sight Helmet) helmet and its shape.

As all the others HMDs (Helmet Mounted Displays) DASH helmets enable pilots to aim weapons against enemy aircraft merely by pointing their heads at the targets: aircraft’s airspeed, altitude, weapons status, aiming etc is in fact projected onto the visor so as to enable the pilot to look out in any direction with all the required data always in his field of vision.

As the famous JHMCS (Joint Helment Mounted Cueing System), the DASH is a normal Gentex helmet fitted with Israel’s Elbit Systems optics.

The Aviationist » Helmet Mounted Display

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According to a press release issued today, BAE Systems has developed a new helmet mounted cueing system for Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 crews.

Similarly to American Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) or the Eurofighter Typhoon’s Helmet Mounted Symbology System (HMSS) the system projects information in front of the pilots eye giving instant information of points of interest.

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Farnborough 2012: This is the most advanced flight helmet, ever. The F-35's Helmet Mounted Display System July 10, 2012
Posted by David Cenciotti in : Farnborough 2012, Military Aviation , 4comments
The one depicted in the following pictures is the most adveniristic combat pilot’s flight helmet ever developed.

It is called “HMDS Gen II” and it is produced by Vision Systems International (VSI), the same company that has designed the very well known JHMCS (Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System) worn by all the F-15, F-16, F-18 pilots of the U.S. armed forces and by aircrew of several other nations.

The HMDS Gen. II integrates FLIR (Forward Looking Infra Red) and DAS (Distributed Aperture System) imaging, night vision (without somehow uncomfortable NVGs – Night Vision Goggles) and, above all, a virtual HUD (Head Up Display) into a single helmet that weights less than 5 lb. including all compontents.

The Virtual HUD technology will make the F-35 the first front line combat plane without a “conventional” HUD: the essential flight and weapon aiming information are project onto a virtual HUD on the visor. Fusing all the information coming from the plane’s sensors along with imagery fed by a set of cameras mounted on the jet’s outer surfaces the system provides the pilot with a X-ray vision-like imagery: he can see in all directions, and through any surface, with his HUD symbology, needed to fly the plane and cue weapons through the line of sight imagery, no matter where the pilot turns his head

Unlike other technologies, it is not an add-on to an existing helmet: it is a brand new, balanced, composite carbon fiber helmet designer with laser measurements of the pilots’ head. Each pilot will have his own HMDS and not only the U.S. Joint Strike Fighters will have one: each F-35 program nation will use the VSI helmet.

Such an advanced technology is still facing some problems: jitter, latency and decreased night-vision acuity; issues that are currently being solved.

The HMDS Gen. II can be integrated on many current combat planes (even some “competitors” of the F-35) and it was evaluated for the Saab Gripen NG.

 

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Helmet-Mounted Display Technologies in Naval Aviation

A pilot flying a combat mission requires a high level of situational awareness (SA) to maintain safe altitude and airspeed, avoid obstructions, evade enemy weapons and, at the same time, execute the mission. Whenever the pilot has a reasonable external scene—as during day operations with good weather—the more time can be spent looking outside of the aircraft, the less time looking at flight-critical instruments, and the better chance there is of avoiding a loss of SA. For several decades the US military has worked to keep the pilot's attention outside the cockpit by utilizing helmet-mounted display (HMD) technologies.

In its simplest form, a HMD provides information (e.g., airspeed) that increases SA because the pilot does not need to break attention from the outside scene to look at instruments in the cockpit. Although this same capability exists in a head-up display (HUD), the fixed nature of this instrument requires the pilot to look forward to see the symbology.

Naval aviation has two fielded HMDs and several programs designed to put these displays into existing and new aircraft. However, HMDs present many problems for designers and require high-performance displays and optics on a helmet that also has to perform its standard functions such as impact protection, hearing and face protection, and provide communication.

The first widely used Naval HMD was the aviators' night vision imaging system HUD (ANVIS-HUD), which performs functions only for night missions where night-vision goggles (NVGs) are in use. The ANVIS-HUD attaches to the objective lens of the goggles and injects symbology into the NVG image seen by the pilot. Hence, it provides improved situational awareness due to minimized heads-down time in the cockpit.1 On the downside, though the ANVIS-HUD provides some symbology, it is not used to slew weapons/sensors or present space-stabilized symbology because the display has no head tracker. However, upgrades are being investigated.

In the late 1990s the US Navy and US Air Force created a joint program to develop the joint helmet-mounted cueing system (JHMCS) for use on F/A-18, F-15, and F-16 aircraft. This provides 'first look, first shot' capability when employed with high off-boresight weapons and under high-G conditions.2 This system reached initial operational capability in 2003 and provides aircrew with head-tracked HMD performance including weapons and sensor slewing and cueing via head direction (see Figure 1). This significantly decreases pilot workload.

Figure 1. Joint helmet-mounted cueing system.
Since initial fielding, the JHMCS capability has grown with integration into the F/A-18D, F, & G aircraft and a new night vision cueing and display (NVCD) capability has entered production which provides a NVG with integrated display of the JHMCS symbology.

Although existing HMDs provide an important tool for the warfighter, these systems do not fully integrate day and night capability in a single configuration. To simplify the integration with the pilot, the NVG has to be replaced by binocular integrated cameras and displays. Although current displays are capable of providing the necessary resolution for symbology, to replace a NVG both sensor and display must increase in resolution. A typical NVG has resolution specified at 1.3 cycles per milliradian over a 40° field-of-view. A simplistic calculation would require a display with a minimum of 900 line-pairs or 1800 pixels in each row. However, the pilot does not look directly at the display but instead sees it through optics with modulation transfer function (MTF) loss. Many HMD optics include a final element—either the visor or a combiner lens—that distorts the image and so requires it to be de-warped: this is normally done on the display. Furthermore, the display has to be viewed while looking at the scene outside the cockpit through a canopy that often has complicated distortion properties requiring angularly dependent correction unique to each eye of the binocular system. When combined, these MTF losses and distortion effects result in a need for very small displays with considerably more than 1800 pixels per row.

In addition to breakthroughs in size and resolution, future HMDs require brighter displays for daylight viewing of video, higher contrast for day and night (background has to be extremely low to display multiple shades of grey) and faster switching (60 Hz or faster refresh) than we have today.

Naval aviators have benefited from the use of HMDs and will benefit from future capabilities as developing sensors and displays are integrated into the next generation. Currently, we are working towards accelerating component development, including high-resolution small-size displays for the HMDs of tomorrow. In the future, we hope to team up with industry to advance HMD technology to satisfy the needs of naval aviation.

Helmet-Mounted Display Technologies in Naval Aviation

BAE's Striker helmet gives fighter pilots 'X-ray vision'

If he were to spot an enemy down there, or anywhere near the aircraft, he would not need to point the plane towards the target.

He would simply look at it - through the solid hull of the plane - make sure that a tiny symbol displayed on his helmet's visor was aligned with the object, press a button and fire.

The pilot is wearing BAE Systems' Striker HMSS helmet, the UK defence company's latest development. Putting augmented reality technology - as used in video games - to military use is the latest goal for helmet makers around the world.

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The plane's sensors provide the pilot with X-ray vision-like imagery”

David Cenciotti
Former Italian Air Force officer
Cameras all around the aircraft are wirelessly linked to BAE's helmet; the system checks in which direction the pilot is looking, and then displays the exact view on the visor, in real time.

Striker incorporates a helmet-mounted display (HMD), designed to help the pilot communicate with the plane.

HMD is a step forward from the so-called head-up displays (HUD) - the transparent screens in front of the pilot that first appeared in the 1970s. They show key data, such as the altitude, speed and direction, allowing pilots to keep their eyes on the view ahead instead of constantly looking down to check their instruments.

HUDs also display targets - but to aim, the pilot has to manoeuvre the aircraft accordingly.

The military around the world started using HMDs in the 1990s; nowadays, they are becoming more and more advanced.

"If a pilot wears a Striker helmet - which is essentially a helmet with an integrated display - when he sees something on the ground he can just turn his head, put a symbol across on to the point of interest, press a button, and the system will calculate the object's co-ordinates," says Alan Jowett of BAE Systems.

Continue reading the main story
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With a helmet-mounted display, you could actually control a UAV equipped with weapons from the jet”

Peter Robbie
EADS
"The aircraft can then turn its sensors, cameras or weapons in that direction - so it allows a dialogue directly between the plane and the pilot."

Night vision
Pilots from a number of countries routinely wear Striker HMSS on training exercises but it has not yet been used in combat.

BAE Systems says its helmet is the most advanced in the world but there are other companies which can make a claim to that title.

California-based Vision Systems International (VSI) has created a helmet-mounted display called HMDS Gen II, specifically designed for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter stealth jet, which is currently under development.

The plane has been designed without a head-up display, so getting the right HMD is paramount.

Like Striker, HMDS Gen II integrates infrared imaging, night vision and a virtual HUD, showing data right in front of the pilot's eyes.

"All of the plane's sensors along with a set of cameras mounted on the jet's outer surfaces feed the system, providing the pilot with X-ray vision-like imagery," says David Cenciotti, a military aviation journalist and former Italian Air Force officer.

Continue reading the main story
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Start Quote

In real life, there is simply no reset button”

Andrew Brookes
Retired RAF pilot
"He can see in all directions, and through any surface, with all the information needed to fly the plane and to cue weapons projected on to the visor."

"The most used helmet-mounted display in the world is JHMCS, also made by VSI."

Playing the game
In future, full-display helmets could lead to the deployment of unmanned drones from the sky, says Peter Robbie, vice-president of business development at European aerospace and defence firm EADS.

"If you're flying a fighter plane with a helmet-mounted display, you could actually control a UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] equipped with weapons from the jet," he says.

"The UAV would be an additional weapons carrier, and the pilot could pass targeting information to it.

"So if he sees a target, by pressing a button it would become the unmanned vehicle's target. The pilot could authorise it to drop a missile and then monitor through his helmet where it is going to go.

"This type of monitoring already happens now - the pilot has a laser pointed on to the target, and it is what the weapon goes after. If at the last minute he sees, for instance, an ambulance turn up, he can make the weapon miss the target."

Such developments, along with the pinpoint accuracy of missiles on a modern aeroplane, could help save lives by reducing collateral damage.

But one retired RAF pilot says that adopting too much technology worries him.

"The biggest computer in my day, in the 1970s and 1980s, was the human brain. Now the human brain is in the business of managing all the data the plane is feeding to it," says Andrew Brookes, a former wing commander.

"You're not flying - the computer does the flying. You just sit in an armchair, so to speak, and manage the battle space, manage all the inputs that are coming around from miles away, and a lot of it is fused under the screen in the helmet in front of your eyes.

"And while the precision power is awesome, and the intelligence-gathering capability is awesome, you become an all-seeing being in the sky.

"That's frightening when you think about it - as everything becomes more technological, there's less and less of the human flying element, and some people may not realise they are making a transition from a video game in their living room to a big video game in a conflict.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19372299

 

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F-7PGs use a Chinese HMD (I think TK-14 or a more advanced varient which is being used on J-7Gs of PLAAF)

This is the new generation HMD over TK-14, i suspect

furthermore, an interesting thing

The predominant PLAAF SRAAM is currently the PL-8 for fighters such as J-7, J-8 and J-10 (and FC-1). However, since the 1989 Paris Air Show, China ’s Luoyang Electro Optical Center has been marketing the capable PL-9C SRAAM with technologies imported from the Russian AA-11 Archer. This is equipped with an advanced seeker that offers a 60-degree off-bore-sight capability in addition to a helmet mounted sighting system that tracks pilot head position in order to target weapons. It has been a mystery why the PLAAF never adopted the PL-9C in large numbers but continues to improve existing stocks of PL-8s. Part of the reason might be that the PLAAF does not want to field three different types of SRAAM (PL-5, PL-8, PL-9). Also, most of the PLAAF radars are based on Israeli designs; for example, the J-7G’s KLJ-6E radar is based on Elta EL/M2001 radar. The PL-8 used with it is based on Israeli’s RAFAEL Armament Development Authority’s Python-3 missile, while there might be problems integrating the Russian-based PL-9 with an Israeli-based radar. This is not only an issue with the J-7, as later models of the J-8’s KLJ-1 radar are also based on Israeli Elta EL/M 2035 multi-mode pulse Doppler radar. Finally, in 2004 the PL-8B’s seeker was reported to have helmet mounted sighting capabilities and the recent photos confirm this development, which may also explain the PLAAF’s decision not to adopt the PL-9.

and

PL-9 IR-guided missile was first developed in the late 80s based on PL-8/Python-3 technology and is for export only. It has an all-aspect InSb seeker and a radio fuze. Its range is 500m minimum and 16km maximum. Speed is Mach 3.5 and load is 40g. Its forward control fins look similar to those of AIM-9L (double delta). The latest variant of PL-9 is called PL-9C with improved multi-band IR seeker and a new programmable digital processor giving it a greater IRCCM capability and higherkilling probablity. Here two PL-9C AAMs are seen being carried by a F-7PG figher to be delivered to PAF. PL-9C is expected to be the standard air-to-air weapon for the new F-7NI/BG/NM series exported to Nigirea, Bangladesh and Namibia as well. Chinese Military Aviation | China Air Force

so it is should also clear some doubts why PAF is still confident in pitting its F-7s against top notch fighters


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Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/jf-17-...ole-fighter-thread-4-a-116.html#ixzz2Mp3bhmQ1

Here is the Sicong Group HMDS for the F-7s.

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helmet is presented as a still picture at 1:50

PAF In Persuit of Self Reliance (PAF Official) - YouTube

PL-9C and HMS: It is not clear that the PL-9C AAM with the TK-14 helmet sight is in widespread PLA service, an indication that the PLA was instead waiting for a more advanced short-range AAM. Source: RD Fishe

A helmet mounted sight displayed by the Cigong Group at the 2004 Zhuhai show uses prominent light-emitting diodes to allow cockpit computers to track the position of the pilot’s head, in order to target weapons, the same system used by the Denel Archer HMD.

Advanced Helmet Systems: The South African “Archer” helmet mounted display (top) uses light emitting diodes to track pilot head position in order to target weapons. The Cigong Group helmet sight seen a the 2004 Zhuhai show used a similar head tracking system. Any potential South African help with new PLA AAMs likely included the sale of advanced helmet display technology. Source: Denel and RD Fisher

http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.181/pub_detail.asp

 

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Author: - knife 　　today, the night view of the military altar. 　　Trapped to death, the East aiming West look. Unexpected discovery: the article on the F-10's helmet - helmet sight. 　　Please note that this figure helmet at, understand what the CCTV's Spring and Autumn tactics. 　　From the helmet appearance of view should be TK-21, however, a stuff overhead. 　　Judged in the .

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China's Air Force flight helmet: 　　helmet is an integral part of modern fighter pilot equipment, our military pilot helmet allotted 1970s. First blue TK-2 flight helmet. 　　TK-2 helmet of the production of the first generation of standard flight helmet. Its appearance for the sky-blue, printed with red star, throughout the approximately hemispherical shape, the lower part of adduction, slightly prominent part of the ear, forehead with a thin layer of housing, protection cover as goggles, the whole shape quite beautiful. Front upper part of the helmet has three holes. 　　The protective shell of glass steel, good heat insulation, sound insulation, impact resistance, anti-fragmentation. TK-2 goggles (also known as filter) light green made ​​of plexiglass, a thickness of 2 mm, to prevent glare. Filter decentralized structures are located on both sides of the helmet shell. 　　Seam helmet shell edge sheep bag, to protect the the helmet edge of complete. TK-2 internal use three shock-absorbing liner, the liner inner rigid foam, the outer layer of latex foam and sheep leather pasted on top of the head, the forehead, the back of the head parts. After the pillow part there is a cushion can be adjusted according to the size of the head shape with adjustment rope. 　　TK2A to improve the model, it TK-2 helmet number of improvements, but also our military service the longest flight helmet.

TK-2A appearance for white, protective shell of glass steel helmet the upper part of the same printed red star, the shape is similar to the TK-2, but the volume size increases, more comfortable to wear. On the surface, the largest part of its change should filter decentralized bodies, the structure to use stainless steel pawl ratchet, ratchet lock design, this design pattern continues today.
　　Internal shock absorbing pad basically followed the double design of the TK-2, but the latex foam layer thickened 3 mm, so that the block thickness of the pad of 20 mm. Due to increased volume of the helmet, Although the liner thickened, but compared with the internal space of the TK-2 still spacious. 　　There are five kinds of size number TK-2A, 0 No. weight of 1.45 kg a minimum fourth weight of 1.25 kg. 　　TK-2A helmet the 　　PS 2 half kilogram of things on his head ...... ventilation hole diameter expanded, the number has increased; filter chip thickened to deepen the color, the thickness of 3 mm, more solid; Snap on the pillow casing installed compensation sac instead the nylon sling snap after pillow cushion thickening widened.

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　　Protective properties further adapt to the needs of the modern models as well as the future of air combat environment, our military recently fitted out the overall improvement upgrade TK-11 flight helmet. New helmets can provide greater protection, practicality and comfort, our military pilots protective helmet is gradually replacing the original TK-2A. 　　The shape of this TK-11 and TK-2A similar, but the outline or has changed a lot, the ear portion of the helmet shell modified transition very smooth arc shape, TK-2A as perpendicular prominent shape, more modern. Oxygen mask with hanging device from hook type is changed to a more advanced and reliable bolt. 　　The edge of the TK-11, so it looks like thick sheep skin and sponge wrapped protection. But absolute comfortable to wear. The fixed mask socket installed in two medial internal soft liner is a summer type. Further can be clearly seen from the right the modified ear protection was part smooth arc-shaped rather than straight-shaped

　　TK-11 helmet

http://www.zgjunshi.com/Article/Class38/Class60/Class164/200606/20060630113131.html

 

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Case Material "Kevlar" material, this material is low thermal conductivity, high strength, good toughness, wear more suitable for use in a variety of environments with a highly protective. The pressure of 10 mm of the rigid foam layer was found from the internal structure, the inner shell of the helmet. Because the shell is made of "Kevlar" laminated structure, so the edge is wrapped to protect sponges and sheepskin round hole at the metal skin to Edge protection.
　　TK-11 is equipped with the YM9915 latch aviation oxygen mask, this oxygen mask with miniature mouth to microphone. The new pressurized compensation sac area 40% larger than before, the helmet the outside less than a hook, opening on both sides of the inner the fixed mask socket mounted on the helmet before. Whole helmet suspension system consists of a mesh component and a removable soft pads, the black mesh assembly leather products, adjusting string through the metal ring on the screw with the housing fixed, mesh assembly, can be based on a different type of head, eye top high adjust the center of gravity of the helmet is more reasonable comfort and stability to 　　be more fully reflected. The entire suspension system also includes a soft liner components, summer, winter two choices: summer-type sheep skin and compound cloth fabric wrapped sponge, just before and after the top of a total of three; winter type is a single piece of The curvature of the cushion, mainly in order to increase the insulation, they lap through a series of Velcro and adjust network formed. Supporting summer suspension system ensures a considerable space between the head of the pilot's helmet body, good ventilation and can buffer external impact. 　　As new equipment, TK a 11 in quieting also taken a variety of measures, including earmuffs improvements, the installation of the headset is a good example. Earmuffs hemispherical housing is made ​​from ABS material. Jacket sheepskin, latex sponge, through a stretch with both ends of the screws fixed to the inside of the helmet. This fixed pattern design, do not need to even / Si adjustment to adapt to different head circumference and ear position, but also conducive to the protection of personnel, when the side suffered a crash. TK-11 is the most important features is to be installed within this follower earmuffs communication headsets, replacing the practice of conventional headset is fixed within the helmet shell, so that the headset at any time can be close to the ear, this new communication The system will undoubtedly improve the perceived ability of the pilots on the battlefield and collaboration capabilities. 　　New design TK 11 is divided into No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, in three sizes, helmet weight 1.25 kg

TK-11 helmet appearance, and the top two round holes on the edge of the metal skin protection

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TK-11C TK-11 series designed for helicopter use

TK21

Lao Maozi ZSH-9

This type is named as a new type of helmet TK-21 TK-2A helmet based on made ​​a greater improvement, new materials manufacturing, regardless of weight, impact resistance and wear comfort has been greatly improved. And some other facilities in the helmet made ​​corresponding improvements helmet color from white to light gray green, on the whole seem to match the new flight suit similar to the Western military aircraft helmet more coordinated. It is reported that this flight helmet will be fielded to military flying units. 　　West light helmet targeting system

 

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The Shanghai Airlines Asahi night vision imaging helmet, Shanghai Airlines Asahi's night vision imaging system based on the French flight helmet, night vision goggles shimmer imaging principle, reasonable design, auto-off fighter pilot ejection. The lighter weight of the entire system, suitable for a variety of pilot helmet.

The fleeting one now: article on the F-10 Helmet
Target weapons associated with emissions estimated hit points, and so on. Displayed depending on condition and transform. 　　HUD's predecessor optical sight on the fighter, this sight using optical reflection principle, projected on the ring aiming circle optical network devices in the cockpit the front of a piece of glass or canopy above, the projected image to the naked eye focal length is fixed at infinity distance above, when pilots targeting will not interfere with the operation of the eye, to maintain a clear display. This sight first appeared in during the First World War. To the time of the Second World War began to be widely used. 　　The HUD the birth of the most important key to analog computers began to be used in the aircraft. Because the display on the HUD text or graphics need to be treated, the signal generated by the traditional instruments can not be used directly in the HUD display needs, through the conversion of computer processing will need to pass to HUD display unit, then the image is projected onto the front of the glass. The first aircraft to use the HUD aircraft carrier-based aircraft of the U.S. Navy's A-5.



　Civil aviation in 1975 by the French Dassault aircraft company used above Mercure airplane. The late 1970s, the United States McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company began to use in the production of the MD-80 series aircraft HUD. 　　The HUD use became prevalent after the mid-1970s, except the United States itself, other countries continue to buy or research and development related to the system. At this time, however, there is a new derivative problems: HUD takes the cockpit in front of the space, the space and the design of the canopy has great relevance, even if many fighters have been using the optical sight, volume larger HUD may not be successfully installed in the desired position, leading to the cockpit in the future must be considered in the design aside HUD requires space. 　　HUD to traditional pointer meter provides information in text or digital representation, to become the next wave of military aircraft instrument display improved: the starting point of the glass cockpit. 　　HUD's basic architecture of the 　　basic architecture consists of two parts: data processing and image display. 　　The data processing unit after processing data integration of the various systems in the aircraft, according to the selected mode to convert the pre-set of symbols, graphics, or by text or a digital type output. Some signal processing and image output products will be divided into two devices, but generally are similar. 　　The image display device is installed in the front of the cockpit, is located in the space between the pilot and cockpit cover. Image display device receives the information from the data processing device, a projection in the glass above. And with the control panel display device, able to mediate or to change the output image. 　　The new generation of the development of 　　a new generation of HUD improved image display including the use of display holography (Holographic), to expand the range of the display image, especially to increase the level of viewing angle limitations and impact of reducing the the bracket thickness of vision enhanced display adjustment different luminosity and external environment, strengthen the sharpness of the image with the optical image output with, say, infrared imaging cameras produce images of the front of the plane to be projected directly onto the HUD fusion with other data The show, with the use of night vision goggles, and the use of the color image display data. 　　The improvements include increase in the data processing unit on the processing speed and efficiency, and increase the capacity of the reception of data of the other new avionics or flu-side apparatus, and strengthen the graphics processing and the generating function, and other aspects. 　　HMD (Helmet-Mounted-Displays) HMD 　　HMS (Helmet-Mounted-Sight) helmet sight 　　HDU (Head Up Display) head-up display / HUD 　　"Head Out" operations: the 　　concept of "Head Out" to the naked eye condition awareness can play extreme, however, have one final obstacle: the fuselage. Radar, infra-red homing air-to-air missile head, IRST now supports situational awareness 60 degrees off-axis, but the pilot's eye is limited by the fuselage, looking up not even limit, looking down, but only 10-20 degrees. Boeing is mounted in the fuselage of a global vision infrared camera, mobile camera along with the pilot's field of vision, projected onto the helmet display. Pilot can even penetrate the instrument panel to "see" the outside world, "penetration" (See Through) concept of situational awareness of pilots eye off-axis capability to fully support weapons and sensors, so that the naked eye situational awareness limited only by the pilot's neck. Helmet display fully meet the demand for the naked eye situational awareness, so JSF can even cancel the head-up display (HUD), increase the area under explicit electronic situational awareness to enhance the display space. Glass cockpit concept as secretary multimedia report, make full use of the senses of the human body to the rapid transmission of messages, so the pilots to quickly understand the tactical situation and make a decision. 　　situational awareness, perception, I have repeatedly stressed that the core avionics improvements.

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The Unreported Revolution In Air Combat
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June 29, 2013: One of the major, and little mentioned, revolutions in air combat is the availability of more powerful and reliable helmet mounted displays and sights. This enables a pilot to “look and shoot” as well as keep their heads up more of the time and more quickly make decisions in air-to-air combat. This dramatic change has not gotten much publicity because there has been such little air-to-air combat in the last few decades. But in realistic training exercises the difference has been noted. This has been documented in detail (and classified) in the United States because since the 1970s, American combat pilots have done regular training in instrumented air space, where every move by aircraft and decision by pilots is recorded. This provides all sorts of data on how the aircraft and pilot performance has evolved over the decades. The new helmets have turned out to be a major innovation in air combat.

One of the best examples of this is the new (introduced last year) version of the American JHMCS (Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System). The JHMCS II allows the user to fire at weapons wherever their eyes are pointed, no matter what direction the helmet is pointed. This new version uses better hardware and software to track the movement of the pilot's eyes. The new JHMCS is better balanced and much more comfortable to wear and use. The new version is more reliable and cheaper as well. Still, a JHMCS II costs about a million dollars. It's an expensive way to cover your head. The cost of JHMCS includes additional equipment to be installed in the cockpit, training, and technical support.

The JHMCS also allows a pilot to see critical flight and navigation information displayed on his visor. Sort of like a see-through computer monitor or Head Up Display. This enables the pilot to look around more often without having to look down at cockpit displays or straight ahead at a HUD (Head Up Display). This kind of freedom gives an experienced pilot an extra edge in finding enemy aircraft or targets and maneuvering to get into a better position for attacks. JHMCS is also useful for air to ground attacks.

Systems like JHMCS have been very effective but JHMCS II is lighter and easier to wear (weight was a major problem in the past), easier to use, and more reliable (if you don't bump into the canopy). The Israelis firm Elbit took the lead in developing this technology and made many technical breakthroughs with their earlier DASH (Display and Sight Helmet) system. Elbit teamed up with American firms to develop and market JHMCS, which is largely an improved DASH system.

The first helmet mounted sights were developed in South Africa in the 1970s. The Russians noted this development when they lost several jet fighters in Angola to South African pilots using the helmets. The Russians went to work and five years later had one of their own. It proved very effective and scared NATO air forces when the Russian helmet was demonstrated by German fighter pilots from the former East German (the Germanys united in 1991) against experienced American F-16 pilots. Israel was the first Western air force to develop one of these helmets and is still a leader in the field.

In the last three decades these helmets have come to handle more data and chores while also being easier to wear. But these helmets are still heavy. That's why the better balance of JHMCS II is important. Even so, six years ago the U.S. Air Force introduced a new neck muscle exercise machine in air force gyms frequented by fighter pilots. This was because the new helmets weighed 2 kg (4.3 pounds), which was about fifty percent more than a plain old helmet. That extra weight may not seem like much but when making a tight turn, the gravitational pull (or "Gs") makes the helmet feel like it weighs 17.3 kg (38 pounds). You need strong neck muscles to deal with that. For decades now fighter pilots have had to spend a lot of time building upper body strength in the gym, in order to be able to handle the G forces. Otherwise, pilots can get groggy or even pass out in flight, as well as land with strained muscles.

Before the helmet mounted displays and aiming systems were available, pilots had to keep checking instruments in the cockpit and use fixed targeting systems. Not having to keep looking at the cockpit displays saved valuable seconds in jet fighter combat that was often over in less than ten seconds. Repeated combat exercises (and actual combat) between pilots with the helmets and those without has made this unequivocal. It’s been a revolutionary development in air combat.

In the air combat community the innovation is recognized as real and, for those not using it, a deadly disadvantage. To make the most of tech like this you must allow your pilots to spend hundreds of hours in the air practicing with the helmets. This is one reason why China and Russia adopted the more expensive Western style of training pilots over the last few decades.

Warplanes: The Unreported Revolution In Air Combat

 

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It was the Soviets who delivered the last big technological shock in the air combat world, which happened after the Cold War, when people realized just how quickly the combination of the agile R-73 missile and a helmet-mounted sight could decide a fight

 

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This Helmet Gives Eurofighters X-Ray Vision

In conventional combat aircraft, the target generally needs to be in both the pilot's field of vision and within the sights of the plane itself. That is, the plane needed to be pointed in the general direction of whatever you're shooting at. But in the case of the new Eurofighter Typhoon, pilots can squeeze off a few Sidewinders at bogies incoming from any direction thanks to a super helmet that links their eyes to the plane's electronic brain.

All those bumps on the back of the helmet are IR LED tracking lights. A three-sensor system above the pilot's head follows the orientation of the LEDs, understanding it as the angle and direction the pilot is looking. Both the plane's exterior sensors and weapon systems follow the pilot's gaze in real-time, allowing him to spot, track, lock onto, and fire upon incoming fighter craft and missiles using just his eyes and a few voice commands.

What's more, information gathered by the plane's external sensors along with vital performance data—speed, heading, altitude—can be projected directly onto the pilot's visor. This appears as a 40 degree, fully overlapped, binocular display. Additional pertinent information from local command can also be piped in.

And then there's the X-ray vision. It's not as good as Superman's but it's still better than any other targeting system available today.

1. The Typhoon's nose-mounted radar detects an enemy aircraft hidden from the pilots view by his fuselage.

2. The system alerts the pilot and projects an image of the enemy onto his visor as he tilts his head down to see it. This is accomplished using the head-tracking LEDs.

3. The pilot can then issue a voice command to engage the automated weapons system tracking.

4. And if another bogie appears over his shoulder while he's closing in on the first target, the pilot simply has to look at the second enemy and issue the voice-command to track it. He can even prioritize between the targets before giving them both barrels.

“This is a major advance in terms of combat capability and is something that gives Typhoon pilots a significant advantage when it comes to air combat,” said Mark Bowman,Chief Test Pilot in a press statement.

The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine, canard-delta wing fighter jet developed by Germany, the UK, Italy and Spain over the past three decades and has been in service since 2003. The latest iteration of the plane, the €90 million Tranche 3, which features this new helmet system, is undergoing final testing and will begin rolling out to airfields across Europe (and some parts of the Middle East) later this year. [Defence Talk - Wikipedia 1, 2 - BAE Systems 1, 2]

This Helmet Gives Eurofighters X-Ray Vision

 

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F-35 Test Pilots Will Begin Flying “Gen” Helmet Display
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F-35 Test Pilots Will Begin Flying “Gen” Helmet Display | Aviation International News
by BILL CAREY


A new sensor in the 'Gen 3' helmet display will improve night vision acuity, a major defect of the 'Gen 2.'
February 8, 2014, 6:00 AM
F-35 test pilots will begin flying this year with a third-generation helmet-mounted display system (HMDS) that incorporates modifications to the earlier-generation display system, which pilots deemed insufficient for missions the Joint Strike Fighter will perform. Last October, after testing the fixes over the course of two years, the Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) gained enough confidence in the new “Gen 3” system to stop the development of an alternate helmet-mounted display.

“I definitely have confidence that we are on the right track, that we have the right plan for these fixes in place and that it’s going to be a great system for the fleet,” saidU.S. Marine Lt. Col. Matthew Kelly, government flight test director at the F-35 integrated training center at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.

In 2011, the Department of Defense (DOD) identified theHMDS as one of several F-35 program risks. According to a “quick-look review” of the jet’s flight-test progress, test pilots found that the “Gen 2” helmet system being developed by the joint venture of Rockwell Collins (Stand Q79) and Elbit Systems (Stand N65) of America–then called Vision System International (VSI)–had inadequate night-vision acuity and experienced display jitter during aircraft buffeting. It was also not timely enough at importing imagery from the F-35’s Northrop GrummanAN/AAQ-37 distributed aperture system (DAS), a set of six infrared sensors, flush-mounted around the aircraft to provide the F-35 pilot with 360-degree, spherical coverage for situational awareness, missile warning and target detection functions.

Getting It Right

Getting the HMDS right is a serious issue because the F-35, the DOD’s costliest weapons program, was designed without a pilot’s heads-up display, a feature that is common to fourth-generation fighters. In September 2011, F-35 prime contractor Lockheed Martin (StandCS02) awarded a contract to BAE Systems (Stand U67) to develop an alternate HMDS with detachable night-vision goggles (NVGs) as a fallback system in the event VSI failed to resolve issues with the chosen helmet-mounted display.

As recently as last September, Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the outspoken, reformist F-35 program executive officer, said the development of an alternate HMDS continued. However, in October, the JPOannounced that it had stopped the development of theBAE Systems helmet in order to focus solely on bringing the Gen 2 HMDS to a “fully compliant” Gen 3 standard. “During the past two years, the JPO and Lockheed Martin used a disciplined systems engineering approach and conducted dedicated helmet flight tests to develop solutions to address the helmet’s technical challenges,” the program office said.

The Gen 3 HMDS “will include an improved night-vision camera, new liquid-crystal displays, automated alignment and software improvements,” according to theJPO. Further, a “cost guarantee” that Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins and Elbit Systems offered the government resulted in a 12-percent reduction from the previous cost of the HMDS–while the program will also recoup $45 million in funds it had originally allocated for the development of the BAE Systems alternatehelmet, the program office said.

The Test Regime

In a recent interview with AIN, Kelly, an F-35 test pilot, described some of the testing that took place during the intervening period between the start and termination of the alternate HMDS development. Flight tests in a surrogate aircraft using a Gen 2 “shell” helmet with a new night-vision camera, as well as tests involving prototype Gen 2 helmets with newly integrated inertial measurement units (IMUs) and software algorithms, gave test pilots enough knowledge to inform Bogdan’s decision to stop the alternate HMDS effort, he said.

The night-vision acuity of the Gen 2 HMDS, which contains an ISIE 10 sensor for low-light-level detection, was the system’s major deficiency, according to Kelly (ISIE stands for Intevac silicon imaging engine). An ISIE11 sensor based on Intevac Photonics’ patented electron-bombarded activated pixel sensor (EBAPS) technology brings the system’s night-vision acuity closer to the 20/20 vision NVGs can provide. The alternate helmet with NVGs would not have been a perfect replacement, though. In order to switch between night vision and DASdisplays, Kelly said, pilots had to remove the entire NVGassembly and then attach another visor, which was “very clumsy and not very pilot friendly,” he added.

Last summer, the F-35 program tested a production-representative night-vision camera with ISIE 11 sensor in a modified Gen 2 helmet, using a twin-engine King Air surrogate aircraft. Flying from St. Mary’s County Regional Airport in Maryland, close to NAS Patuxent River, pilots tested the system in high- and low-light conditions and compared it to using ANVIS 9 NVGs. Testers also used a ground-based laser designator to determine how far away pilots could spot a laser pointer.

“There were some limitations to the test,” Kelly acknowledged. “It wasn’t in an F-35, but it was close enough that we could make a confident decision about the usability and the effectiveness of the new ISIE 11 night-vision camera in the Gen 3 helmet. [We could say] we know enough now to make the decision to start saving money by not funding the alternate helmet. That fed [Bogdan’s] decision matrix in canceling the alternate helmet.”

Integrated Night Imagery

F-35s will have two night-vision cameras. A canopy bow in the jet obstructs the helmet camera, which is positioned above the pilot’s eye level on the HMDS. A second, dashboard-mounted camera is used in combination with the first; the imagery from both cameras is fused for display to the pilot.

In a separate interview with AIN, Intevac Photonics’ general manager Drew Brugal said, “the plan had always been” to eventually deliver the ISIE 11 sensor, which was not mature when the company was contracted to provide integrated night imagery for the F-35 HMDS. Last fall, Intevac started delivering ISIE 11 sensors to Elbit Systems of America, which builds the sensor into the night-vision camera. “The feedback we received was that [the night-vision camera] met the pilots’ expectations and they are comfortable going forward with the ISIE 11,” Brugal said.

The helmet system’s latency, or response time at importing DAS imagery–measured in milliseconds–was not the problem testers thought it would be, Kelly said. Pilots just hadn’t had the opportunity to use the DASsensor array during flight testing. “Initially there was concern about the latency of the DAS and what that might look like,” he said. “But we were able to do some testing in the spring and summer of 2013 where we looked at a bunch of different tasks [and] some formation flying and, across-the-board, we found there was really no issue with the latency.”

Test pilots experienced helmet-mounted display jitter in areas of the F-35 flight envelope that haven’t been approved for training, Kelly said. The program addressed the problem by integrating micro IMUs and filtering algorithms in the HMDS to cancel out jitter effects. Pilots flew the fixes using a modified Gen 2 helmet. “It’s still not perfect, but it’s the 95-percent solution and the major issue there is resolved,” he said.

Asked if the jitter effect will be further improved, JPOspokesperson Kyra Hawn, answered: “In the bigger scope of the program, we have a lot of sophisticated technology. The constant challenge is, we’ve gotten to the 95-percent solution, which is viable and usable based on the mission requirements. What does it cost us to get the 5 [percent] in terms of investment and time, and what do we get as a result of getting that 100-percent solution? [What] do we derive from the additional investment and is it worthwhile given all other things?”

According to the JPO, the improved Gen 3 HMDS will be introduced to the F-35 fleet in low-rate initial production Lot 7 in 2016, and complete test and development the following year. The Marine Corps, which plans to declare initial operational capability (IOC) of its F-35Bs in July 2015, will start operations with Gen 2 helmet-mounted displays. “The Marine Corps understands that really forIOC we’re not counting on that [Gen 3] capability,” Kelly said.

 

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FEATURES OVERVIEW OF TACTICS Ki T-50 PAK FA
Equipped for combat pilots - Hats work aka HMDS (part 1)

PAK FA fighter pilots are expected to work fitted hats, also known as protective helmet (Защитный шлем) to provide functions such as protection against impact, vibration of the head and face for pilots , windshield mount and anti-glare aviator sun eye protection, partly associated communications systems including the first recording headset for pilots, line mounted display system for target designation and weapon systems gas line of air and oxygen mask attached to the pilot.

Test pilot Sergey Bordan hat use Zsh-7AP work in the first test flight of the PAK FA T-50 took place on 29/1/2010 (photo A.Baranov Издательский дом Коммерсантъ

As expected, caps work for PAK FA fighter pilots include two types of shares by the Company are factory-produced science "Zvezda" (Научно-производственное предприятие "Звезда") provided that: zsh-7AP and zsh-9.

Hats Hats zsh-7AP is equipped with popular works for fighter pilots driving the fighter aircraft generation 4 + + and 5 of the Air Force or for export.
Hats zsh-7AP work on display at the MAKS-2009 (photo Vitaly V.Kuzmin, taking over from Фотосайт со вспышкой | ФЛАМБЕР

Hats crust consists of two links over the rim of the shell and liner together with pressurized dampers pressed the top portion pilot . There Crust in the top ear cushions can be modified to fit the size of the pilot's head . Quai caps lock is attached to the inside of the helmet shell . Outer shell made from hard plastic with ventilation holes 5 2 cm in diameter placed in front of the arc hat . Front part casing cap 1 line to mount and display system instructs helmet-mounted target . Hats zsh - 7AP 1 and anti -glare windscreen sun is dark brown in between 2 layers arranged at the front of the helmet shell . This glass has 2 pull -down mode and pulled up whole by dragging the bottom rim of the glass left eye while pulling down down mode and automatic key lock in case the pilot launch escape though .The previous section work zsh - 7AP hat with vents and 5 line display system mounted target designation and helmet-mounted ( using images from Золото wow, wow gold, луткоды wow, ключи wow, таймкарты wow, питомцы wow, спутники wow, маунты wow - MMOPEON.ru )

Hats zsh-9 (also known as zsh-90) is the latest hat work is expected to equip fighter pilots steering the aircraft's 5th generation fighter the Air Force or for export.

Overcome the disadvantages of working Hats zsh - 7AP ( the latest version is and zsh zsh - 7APS - 7APN ) , hat zsh - 9 work has improved in terms of volume , material and design .Hats zsh - 9 work using fiber kevlar helmet shell reinforcement is effective against moderate fire , stop shrapnel , and to reduce the volume cap than work hat - 7AP zsh ( zsh - 9 helmet weighing less 1 kg , while zsh - 7AP caps and the improved volume from 1,250 kg to 1,450 kg ) . Wrap the outer layer of Kevlar fiber reinforced plastic layer is formed shell hat . Windshield yellow color of the hat is hiding in hard plastic shield glasses earlier keying hat and glasses arranged in the left ear portion of the helmet shield glass . Chicken blood and display system instructs the target helmet- mounted visor in hand on the glass . Hats systematically arranged air vents behind the glass shield on the underside hold the air to escape from under paddy windshield when reporters whether pilots escape from aircraft flying at high speed to protect the head pilots and neck straps adjacent to the cap .Hats work GSh - 9 windshield mounted night - ONV1 GEO - 01 on display at the MAKS - 2005 ( image used from RedPilot.com: The Leading Red Pilot Site on the Net )

Design interior of hat-9 zsh zsh-7AP similar hat with ear can help calibrate sizes, damper plate and the top plate with the last pressure regulator after the first pilot to help improve oxygen masks when near pilot prior to take part in huge load direction. Hats zsh-9 has anti-jamming communications system integrates low impedance.

Protective gear including helmet flying individuals working GSh-9 oxygen mask KM-36 and the clothes fly fly high pressure compensator VKK-15 (image used from RedPilot.com: The Leading Red Pilot Site on the Net

FEATURES OVERVIEW OF TACTICS Ki T - 50 PAK FAEquipped for combat pilots - weapons systems display , aiming directives and observations on the work capThe system displays weapons , directives and aim an observer in all light conditions helmet -mounted work - NSTsI ( НСЦИ - Нашлемная Система круглосуточного видения , Целеуказания и Индикации ) is one of the equipment , gas resources for mandatory combat pilot fighter PAK FA under the scheme . NSTsI weapons system helps PAK FA fighter pilots perform the following functions :- Directive you aim for aiming weapons systems and arms control on the aircraft , automatic parameter measurements to the target line of sight angle in the direction of the pilot and observer based standards with the goal within sight on -screen display ;- Displays the operational parameters of the control system aircraft , weapons control and reconnaissance targets from the reconnaissance system integrated with data or graphics projected through the lens of the eye 2 pilot ;- Observe the scene space combat in all light conditions .Currently Sukhoi Corporation intends to use weapons system by the State Enterprise NSTsI a member federal operations ray of the uranium plant body called ES Yalamov " UOMZ " provide fighter T - 50 PAK FA under the scheme .Part capture blocks display directives aiming of weapons system displays , indicators and aim an observer in all light conditions helmet -mounted work NSTsI ( Vitaly V.Kuzmin image )

NSTsI weapons system for PAK FA T-Scheme 50 is UOMZ developed on the basis of integrated weapons systems GEO-NSTsI1 domestic capital is designed to replace the system instructs you aim mounting on hat working NSTs (НСЦ - Нашлемная система целеуказания) have origin from central design Bureau Arsenal (Центральное конструкторское бюро "Арсенал") Ukraine is Shchel-ZUM (Щель-ЗУМ) equip fighter 4 generations of Union bucket and Sura (Сура) equipped fighters Russian 4 + generation.

Weapons systems aim an indicator mounted on the helmet work NSTs Sura (Vitaly V.Kuzmin image)

The system operates under the principle NSTsI Positioning System continuous electromagnetic field ( Электромагнитная система позиционирования на постоянном поле ) includes two components: component positioning hat electromagnetic field work in order to provide computer parameters viewing angle and is targeted display component parameters . This component includes the two devices , ammunition and layout work on the pilot's helmet and the cockpit as follows :- Block electromagnetic fields generated continuously adjusted capacity to interact noise reduction from the cockpit ;- Block 6 electromagnetic field sensors mounted on the work cap to measure 6 3 parameters include parameters coordinate coordinates according to the plane ( horizontal plane , vertical plane and the vertical plane ) and 3 angle parameters ;- Volume projected to display parameters on the windshield of the work hat ;- Block block power control generators and synchronous magnetic system ;- Block signal processing to provide directives aiming parameters and display parameters receive between computer systems and the effects of aircraft ;- Block 3 Earth's magnetic field sensor to calibrate additional parameters electromagnetic distortion in the cockpit due to changes in Earth's magnetic field on the itinerary .The system displays weapons , directives and aim an observer in all light conditions attached on hats NSTsI work is expected to equip fighter aircraft PAK FA under the scheme ( Vitaly V.Kuzmin image )

Tactical level parameters NSTsI system for T-50 PAKFA scheme
- Angle of View targets (Измерение углов линии визирования цели):
- According to the azimuth (по азимуту): ± 120 degrees
- Wrong angle (по углу места): ± 60 °
- Maximum error when locating line of sight (Максимальная погрешность определения углового положения линии визирования): 20 minutes angle
- School of observations (Размер информационного кадра): 13х18 angle
- Resolution (Пространственное разрешение): 520 rows of pixels
- Frequency of updates Intelligence (Частота обновления информации):
- Instructs you aim (целеуказания): 100 Hz
- Display parameters (индикации): 200 Hz