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BT: Inside BAE’s Striker II – The most advanced fighter pilot helmet ever made
Integrated night vision, picture-in-picture, 3D audio and completely future-proofed, discover more about this piece of military tech.
If you can, for a second, imagine flying an £87 million fighter jet at over 1,000 miles per hour. Now envisage doing it at night, in heavy rain, deep in enemy territory, while closing in on a target and avoiding becoming one yourself.
It’s conceivable you wouldn’t have much time to look down at the cockpit to check the speedometer, right?
So, it’s no surprise that heads-up and head-mounted displays, delivering mission-critical information to their natural field of view, have become indispensable for pilots undertaking the most perilous tasks.
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WNU Editor: No mention on the cost of this helmet. As for the F-35 helmet (which is probably similar to the BAE helmet), it is not cheap .... F-35 helmet costs $400,000 — 4 times that of predecessor (USA Today).
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