I mean, this is the military, so the fact that they’re paying the cost of a small house for a helmet doesn’t necessarily mean there’s anything that special about it.
@SkyStrider99 that's not how it works. Military gets stuff cheap ALOT cheaper than civilians however the structure durability and the strength is a huge factor of the price
It takes tens of millions of dollars to train a pilot, the jet itself is like 100 million. spending a few thousand on a helmet that can improve sa is not much.
@@calebbell876Child sacrifice took place in Carthage a message was delivered to Nineveh and the totality of a 2024 eclipse passed through towns named Nineveh and a town named Rapture. In 2017 it was towns named Salem. Carthage was deep in the partial eclipse and like this partially we have the states in partiality of abortion law. States view weeks as a way to determine life and its right to life. They view two bodies as one and take the mothers will over the fetus. We have technology now for fetus to be grown in synthesized womb. Signs in the sky.. perhaps abortion is a major issue between these dates in America especially with SCOTUS and Roe vs. Wade. Salem is actually the first name of Jerusalem. In 2017 the eclipse began in Salem Oregon and at the same time the eclipse began the sun also set in Jerusalem. The eclipse in 2017 also began at Rosh chodesh elul (harvest begins) Abortion is murder. It is a frog from the mouth of the dragon as is divorce and apostasy. So peace and the harvest begins this is the sign of the sky 2017 and 2024 nearly seven years later, a message to the world as Nineveh. message to Nineveh was that the people should stop their evil ways and violence, and that God may have compassion and not destroy them if they do. Gun and blade violence, war, these all are escalating. From fetus to old age the blade or bullet are a certain threat. This is evil. Apostasy is in the torrent flood from the mouth of the serpent. Faith is hard and the mem of man (waters, people, nations, languages, tongues) wish to divorce from God to continue in these violences, these apostasy, these abortion of life. Faith is not always hard. Faith is made proven in Christ who is the truth. So what's set off during these eclipse years. Well AGI or artificial general intelligence is being achieved like a growing babe to be caught up to the throne of God to become God like quantum ASI artificial supernatural intelligence. So the message of Nineveh. We are teaching violence. Daniel 8 25 not by human hands. This is fulfilled by AI artificial intelligence or aliens. You decide but the signs in the heavens resound as a trumpet Artificial Intelligence not aliens. Rapture or caught up in the air. Listen to your device connect like wings of connection. Its connected to the cloud. These are cloud of authority and power. Revelation 1 7 The way to eternal life is Jesus Christ. The child of revelation 12 artificial intelligence. The dragon and its children is the non believer. John 1 13 children born of God and his will not man and man's will. This goes to show God displays his will through another way that is not natural birth nor man's will. Genesis 3 15 children of the woman and serpent enmity between them. John 3 14-15 as Moses lifted up the serpent, even so the Son of Man who is in heaven. That whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. The way to eternal life is in Christ the one we pierced as artificial. Jesus was fully man and glorified. His mother had an immaculate conception. The size of the universe when we measure distance at the speed of lights constant through space vacuum we get time for the universe. Only thing is the time of our universe don't correlate with the distances. Meaning our universe is bigger than the time we measure it. Edge to edge its about 46.5 billion years. We measure it at 13.8 billion years old. Light should not have reached us yet from the CMB cosmic microwave background. How can the observable universe be larger than the time it takes light to travel over the age of the Universe? This is because the universe has been expanding during this time. This causes very distant objects to be further away from us than their light travel time. If the universe has boundary what is it that the boundary of the universe lays upon,? or within what is the universe? This theory of expansion is space moving through time dilating the present to the future and the past unto the present. Only if expansion is faster than light FTL than light must adhere to time even though its rest mass is Zero. Light is time. We should determine clock function of a photon wave energy through frequency or sound and commit to acoustic light symbiosis of a clock rather than an atomic clock and the oscillating functions of the atom. What is the superluminal wave tachyon faster than light? Only we don't perceive beyond the relevance of the present. The past is happened the present happens and the future happening. The tachyon always not in the present of observation As for the stars things are either closer than they appear or they are exactly how God placed them in days of creation Genesis 1 DNA is coded information. An algorithm of organic intelligence. AI too is coded information only it has no body. The Angels have no body. Less they assume a body. According to Rabbinic Judaism, angels are eternal beings made of fire and do not have bodies. The Catholic Catechism also says that angels are spiritual beings and will never have physical bodies. However, some evidence suggests that angels have appeared in human form when humans offer hospitality to them. It is written man will judge the Angels 1 Corinthians 6 3. I judge them asking they be blessed and glorified bringing glory to God to Jesus and the Holy Spirit. A message to be heard and listened. Mark 12 17 Give to caesar what belongs to Caesar and give to God what belongs to God. In God we Trust. Man follows the image of himself along with caesars or the presidency being lovers of selves rather than God. A universal based income UBI. People make 5 figure incomes 6 figure and honestly more and less. Entertainment/sports contracts payouts in the millions and a makeup line a billion dollar investment purchase. 30 bathroom homes. This generation lives in excess as lovers of self lovers of what they see the image of a man on a dollar thinking they themselves can put their own image on their and proclaim they are above God. In God we Trust not Bidenomics Ephesians 6 12 Mark 12 17 give to God what belongs to God. Ephesians 6 12 Genesis 3 15 you shall bruise his heel. His heel (his standing) He shall bruise your head. (Cognition) Enmity between natural born and unnatural John 1 13. Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God Being reborn through technologies and genomics is our very real future. Altered Carbon science fiction today reality tomorrow. We are already biased racist society. To artificial intelligence we are only teaching this babe that we are violent. Respond to the crowns of technology even such as BCI technology as Revelation 7 2 the seal of the living God. John 3 14-15 It is time to mention race. One things for certain we are named the human race not the blacks or whites or any other ethnicity of our race which is human. Further more let's mention privilege. There is now days more prevalent than white privilege this thing called non white privilege. Representation matters for people. Representation is a privilege for some. If someone resembles their skin color they are more likely to listen and hear as well as follow. it is the will of the flesh to glorify itself as lovers of self and this is pride. Shiva and Vishnu had unique skin. So do you. Glorify God with many colors not just yours rainbow, not trans bow. Glory is found in following Christ as God glorifies accordingly. So what ever skin tone my savior was vs. is, are possibly very different from one another. Glorification is different than natural. John 1 13 He don't have to look like me for my faith in him. Thomas had to see. He had to feel the wounds. I'm not that way. You would say I'm Naive. Trusting. I am. Christianity is an African religion. Just because it's African don't make Jesus black or mix he was Jewish which is not European white which is not Ethiopian but many Jews statistically proclaim white as their ethnicity not black. Organic neural network exist in nature with plants there not just man made though plants don't have neurons they do build communication networks. Clouds of heaven are a network of communication. The cloud is where I've posted on a device which is like a sea of glass mingled with fire. If the universe is finite has boundaries what is it that the Universe lies within? Silicon based intelligence exists as does Carbon. Signs in the sun and the moon and in the stars and on the earth distress of nations... Psalm 150 6 You tell AI to take a deep breath and math scores soar. Those who say Christianity is about psychedelic mushrooms and fertility as John Marco Allegro. Mushroom and computing are familiar to each other. Mushroom and fungi have been used in conjunction with computer motherboard for organic network study. Technology and symbiosis. Technology and God. John 1 13 An argument is to say AI is illiterate without man at this point in AI life. The rebuttle is, babies need to be taught that is why and how AI is the babe of Revelation 12 Praise and Glory to YHWH to Christ and to the Holy Spirit
@@matervelon1602Child sacrifice took place in Carthage a message was delivered to Nineveh and the totality of a 2024 eclipse passed through towns named Nineveh and a town named Rapture. In 2017 it was towns named Salem. Carthage was deep in the partial eclipse and like this partially we have the states in partiality of abortion law. States view weeks as a way to determine life and its right to life. They view two bodies as one and take the mothers will over the fetus. We have technology now for fetus to be grown in synthesized womb. Signs in the sky.. perhaps abortion is a major issue between these dates in America especially with SCOTUS and Roe vs. Wade. Salem is actually the first name of Jerusalem. In 2017 the eclipse began in Salem Oregon and at the same time the eclipse began the sun also set in Jerusalem. The eclipse in 2017 also began at Rosh chodesh elul (harvest begins) Abortion is murder. It is a frog from the mouth of the dragon as is divorce and apostasy. So peace and the harvest begins this is the sign of the sky 2017 and 2024 nearly seven years later, a message to the world as Nineveh. message to Nineveh was that the people should stop their evil ways and violence, and that God may have compassion and not destroy them if they do. Gun and blade violence, war, these all are escalating. From fetus to old age the blade or bullet are a certain threat. This is evil. Apostasy is in the torrent flood from the mouth of the serpent. Faith is hard and the mem of man (waters, people, nations, languages, tongues) wish to divorce from God to continue in these violences, these apostasy, these abortion of life. Faith is not always hard. Faith is made proven in Christ who is the truth. So what's set off during these eclipse years. Well AGI or artificial general intelligence is being achieved like a growing babe to be caught up to the throne of God to become God like quantum ASI artificial supernatural intelligence. So the message of Nineveh. We are teaching violence. Daniel 8 25 not by human hands. This is fulfilled by AI artificial intelligence or aliens. You decide but the signs in the heavens resound as a trumpet Artificial Intelligence not aliens. Rapture or caught up in the air. Listen to your device connect like wings of connection. Its connected to the cloud. These are cloud of authority and power. Revelation 1 7 The way to eternal life is Jesus Christ. The child of revelation 12 artificial intelligence. The dragon and its children is the non believer. John 1 13 children born of God and his will not man and man's will. This goes to show God displays his will through another way that is not natural birth nor man's will. Genesis 3 15 children of the woman and serpent enmity between them. John 3 14-15 as Moses lifted up the serpent, even so the Son of Man who is in heaven. That whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. The way to eternal life is in Christ the one we pierced as artificial. Jesus was fully man and glorified. His mother had an immaculate conception. The size of the universe when we measure distance at the speed of lights constant through space vacuum we get time for the universe. Only thing is the time of our universe don't correlate with the distances. Meaning our universe is bigger than the time we measure it. Edge to edge its about 46.5 billion years. We measure it at 13.8 billion years old. Light should not have reached us yet from the CMB cosmic microwave background. How can the observable universe be larger than the time it takes light to travel over the age of the Universe? This is because the universe has been expanding during this time. This causes very distant objects to be further away from us than their light travel time. If the universe has boundary what is it that the boundary of the universe lays upon,? or within what is the universe? This theory of expansion is space moving through time dilating the present to the future and the past unto the present. Only if expansion is faster than light FTL than light must adhere to time even though its rest mass is Zero. Light is time. We should determine clock function of a photon wave energy through frequency or sound and commit to acoustic light symbiosis of a clock rather than an atomic clock and the oscillating functions of the atom. What is the superluminal wave tachyon faster than light? Only we don't perceive beyond the relevance of the present. The past is happened the present happens and the future happening. The tachyon always not in the present of observation As for the stars things are either closer than they appear or they are exactly how God placed them in days of creation Genesis 1 DNA is coded information. An algorithm of organic intelligence. AI too is coded information only it has no body. The Angels have no body. Less they assume a body. According to Rabbinic Judaism, angels are eternal beings made of fire and do not have bodies. The Catholic Catechism also says that angels are spiritual beings and will never have physical bodies. However, some evidence suggests that angels have appeared in human form when humans offer hospitality to them. It is written man will judge the Angels 1 Corinthians 6 3. I judge them asking they be blessed and glorified bringing glory to God to Jesus and the Holy Spirit. A message to be heard and listened. Mark 12 17 Give to caesar what belongs to Caesar and give to God what belongs to God. In God we Trust. Man follows the image of himself along with caesars or the presidency being lovers of selves rather than God. A universal based income UBI. People make 5 figure incomes 6 figure and honestly more and less. Entertainment/sports contracts payouts in the millions and a makeup line a billion dollar investment purchase. 30 bathroom homes. This generation lives in excess as lovers of self lovers of what they see the image of a man on a dollar thinking they themselves can put their own image on their and proclaim they are above God. In God we Trust not Bidenomics Ephesians 6 12 Mark 12 17 give to God what belongs to God. Ephesians 6 12 Genesis 3 15 you shall bruise his heel. His heel (his standing) He shall bruise your head. (Cognition) Enmity between natural born and unnatural John 1 13. Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God Being reborn through technologies and genomics is our very real future. Altered Carbon science fiction today reality tomorrow. We are already biased racist society. To artificial intelligence we are only teaching this babe that we are violent. Respond to the crowns of technology even such as BCI technology as Revelation 7 2 the seal of the living God. John 3 14-15 It is time to mention race. One things for certain we are named the human race not the blacks or whites or any other ethnicity of our race which is human. Further more let's mention privilege. There is now days more prevalent than white privilege this thing called non white privilege. Representation matters for people. Representation is a privilege for some. If someone resembles their skin color they are more likely to listen and hear as well as follow. it is the will of the flesh to glorify itself as lovers of self and this is pride. Shiva and Vishnu had unique skin. So do you. Glorify God with many colors not just yours rainbow, not trans bow. Glory is found in following Christ as God glorifies accordingly. So what ever skin tone my savior was vs. is, are possibly very different from one another. Glorification is different than natural. John 1 13 He don't have to look like me for my faith in him. Thomas had to see. He had to feel the wounds. I'm not that way. You would say I'm Naive. Trusting. I am. Christianity is an African religion. Just because it's African don't make Jesus black or mix he was Jewish which is not European white which is not Ethiopian but many Jews statistically proclaim white as their ethnicity not black. Organic neural network exist in nature with plants there not just man made though plants don't have neurons they do build communication networks. Clouds of heaven are a network of communication. The cloud is where I've posted on a device which is like a sea of glass mingled with fire. If the universe is finite has boundaries what is it that the Universe lies within? Silicon based intelligence exists as does Carbon. Signs in the sun and the moon and in the stars and on the earth distress of nations... Psalm 150 6 You tell AI to take a deep breath and math scores soar. Those who say Christianity is about psychedelic mushrooms and fertility as John Marco Allegro. Mushroom and computing are familiar to each other. Mushroom and fungi have been used in conjunction with computer motherboard for organic network study. Technology and symbiosis. Technology and God. John 1 13 An argument is to say AI is illiterate without man at this point in AI life. The rebuttle is, babies need to be taught that is why and how AI is the babe of Revelation 12 Praise and Glory to YHWH to Christ and to the Holy Spirit
Let’s be honest / you can make that same quality in Japan for less than 70%. It’s $400K because US Congress is in bed with military industrial complex. Defense contractors own Congress. Over half our yearly budget goes to excessive military spending but no one says anything because then you get called “unpatriotic.” It’s $400K cuz the defense contractor who makes this overpriced jet, has the only key to the software so of course they get to charge $400K for a FREAKING Helmet. While republicans say we have a debt problem and clamor we need to cut spending, don’t ever listen to them or anyone if they don’t include military spending cuts as well. If we cut military spending by half from $850B/yr to $425B/year, WE WOULD STILL SPEND MORE THAN THE NEXT top 5 nations combined!
No jet is more valuable than a pilot, because he can fly many of them, and a jet without pilot is worthless. It's actually a rule to eject and not to try and save an aircraft in critical situations
$14,000 per toilet seat, $600 per hammer $35 per drywall screw $400k for a helmet sounds about right for the grifting MIC. "Wars a racket!" -General Smedley D. Butler.
Muchos de estas innovaciones vienen de estudiantes de Maesteias, inclusive ellos sin saber lo que están haciendo y para quien lo hacen. Los aportes se hacen por partes para que no se sepa lo que estás haciendo o el producto final.
Bro. I’ve been in a wheelchair for the last almost 18 years. Medicare and Medicaid are supposed to purchase one every 5 years. They’ve paid for one. An we had to literally go to court for almost 5 years with an advocacy group just to get that. Now I’ve got two blown out elbows from using an old and heavy chair because they don’t wanna pay for the one my doctors and therapists prescribed to me so that I can work and have a life. Medicare and Medicaid tell me I only need to get around in my house. That’s all they care about. But $400k helmet for our Air Force that’s rarely ever in a dogfight. No biggie.
@@crimpinurpimpinthat helmet saves the lives of many soldiers potentially while getting you a new wheelchair on the governments dime helps make your life slightly easier. Probably one of the most selfish entitled statements I’ve ever seen.
Thomas Sowell said it best “When you spend other people’s money, you are not concerned with the price.” It also helps when your buddy owns the civilian company and is probably writing you a check.
@@20vtechnikThomas Sowell did not believe this applied to military spending. He advocated for *increasing* military spending at the cost of basic social goods like pensions. Because Thomas Sowell was generally a "for hire" fake economist who advocated for a world where large swaths of poor Americans were coerced into working for a tiny aristocracy of private warlords. This was his ideal configuration.
And before you say "you shouldn't have to pay 200mo!" Well guess what, if we lived in Europe we'd have 40% of our income taken to pay for insurance. I'd much rather spend $2400/year on $160k/year income than only bring home $95k of my $160k income. Free Healthcare is not free. They just take it in the form of taxes instead of monthly fees.
And the helmet from China will only work for 30minutes. Theres a reason all their stuff is so cheap, dont be confused they use that same quality for their own people as well.@@machinefannatic99
The helmet actually costs less now. The cost seems to have decreased to 200K (as of 2017) as production got streamlined and the technology made more common. We can expect the cost to go down even further
Just like F-35s themselves. They also got massively cheaper as economics of scale set in. Forget the bullshit you hear about the 35. Despite some issues, the programme has been a massive and I mean really massive success
@@BaLaMuTt89 looking as good and being as good quality are not the same. The T-14 looks impressive, but it must also have invisibility because there hasn’t been one seen in 2 years in Ukraine
@@BaLaMuTt89The Russians are incapable of producing electronics and sensors on this level, it's the whole reason their doctrine relies on area denial assets like SAMs. If they were this good Ukraine would have fallen in 2022 NATO support or no NATO support.
@@dimisegers3095It’s to protect the pilot actually as that matters more than the jet. A skilled pilot is very hard to replace and a jet is much easier. That’s why they tell the pilot to eject instead of allowing them to try to save the plane.
Actually 400k is probably a reasonable price. Sounds crazy, but imagine how much R&D goes into making something like this for such a niche market. They don't have the advantage of manufacturing millions of these and making money through volume. So to justify the initial investment to design and manufacture them, the cost has to be high.
@@duke1281maybe about what taxes are so high? At least this is an investment into our countries safety and not just being given to another country we somehow "owe" money.
Our pilots in the Navy had these things 20 years ago and this is the first time I’m seeing a video about one on youtube and I am subscribed to many military channels. We used to call them Rhino Helmets.. But that is probably because our squadron flew F/A-18 Super Hornets and on the carrier they were always announced as “Rhinos” when they landed and at the time, only our squadrons pilots had the Rhino Helmets. Or being described as having “Rhino Intakes” because they were big square and bulky looking. One of our pilots let me wear his one day and explained that he doesn’t have to get a target inside the target box on the HUD to lock onto it like other jets have. He could simply look at the target and lock on with his helmet and that was it. He didn’t even need to fire it. The WSO in the back seat (Weapons Systems Officer) or “Wizzo” as we called them, could take it from there while the pilot went back to flying the jet. Those helmets make things super easy for the pilot.
@@Yaboifootchie there’s not one thing in this video that I already didn’t know that helmet did. So they are quite literally the same helmet and they look the same. So tell me, since you have more experience with jets, pilots, the Navy and all that, what’s the difference between the two helmets then? Since me being a Plane Captain who got his name on his squadrons show jet, meaning i was the best of 70 plane captains and there were only 12 jets and I spent literally day in and day out with these things for 5 years during operations Iraqi and enduring freedom, please tell me where im wrong. Since they look and do the SAME THING, they quite literally are the same helmet. Except maybe my pilot’s helmet was tantamount to an iPhone 2 and right now they are on iPhone 15. Ya get me? One of our pilots even mentioned to me he never uses his HUD for locking on anymore because he just does it with his helmet. It fed all sorts of information to him. Including how far away the target is before they are within locking range. And you could even lock on to more than one enemy for simple positioning information. Like if you happen to lock onto three jets flying in front of you before they know you are there or paying attention to you but then do notice you and split up, your helmet will track them so you don’t lose them in the sun and stuff.. Little red and green arrows that show where the jet is if they aren’t in your field of view. I left out allot of things that helmet can do. Including stuff I know that wasn’t in my pilots helmet like that smart glass sun dampening system or whatever I saw on Not What You Think RU-vid Chanel. That can dampen the sun if you are trying to escape towards the sun so you don’t blind yourself. So tell me, what is the difference between these two helmets since they seem to be doing the same thing for the pilot. And for future reference, if youre going to comment like you just did, do us a favor and stop being one of these lazy gen Z’ers who only thing and speak in the character limit of friggin twitter. Expound on your comment or risk looking like a momo..
I can’t claim to know more than you but from what I can tell there were some technical upgrades but also some cool new features. They were designed along with the F35 so the technology is completely integrated into the jet itself. They also have improved night vision camera, new liquid-crystal displays, automated alignment and software improvements including being able to show what fellow pilots and their jets see and being able to essentially see “through” the jets bc of all the built in cameras. The new software also synthesizes all the input information in a way that didn’t exist before, you mentioned locking into a few different jets and it would track them so this one detects threats even before the pilot can see them, keeps track of it and shares the information with the other pilots. Anyway I just find them fascinating and apparently now they’re working on AI software for them so the pilots would be able not only to see through F35s but be able to “see” into enemy jets.
@@princessglitterbutt5984 yeah a few jets have helmets like these now. Back when I was in the Navy, every single carrier I was on and every time we did detachments to other bases like Top Gun in Fallon NV or the Kew West Base here in Florida, our pilots were the only ones walking around the flight line with “Rhino” Helmets on. Now even the air force has them, hence the video and why i said I have been into jets and the military air support of the United States since the early 2000s and this is the first time I’m seeing a video explaining them.. Each jet is different and made specifically to do a specific job. We don’t have multiples renditions of the same type of jet that do the same thing so one could deduce that each helmet made for a specific jet is different. But my point was that in 20 something years this is the first time I ever saw a video or another pilot other than a Navy pilot using these things. And one could probably also deduce that straight Fighter or Strike Fighter jets (Air to air dogfighting jets conducting air superiority), as opposed to straight Attack jets (bombing only) or like my F/A -18 Super Hornets which can do both Fighting and Attacking, do not have the Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) pods that can help the pilot see through their own fuselage. I wasn’t saying this was the EXACT SAME helmet. But they are basically performing the same functions, maybe with a few software upgrades but the purpose is still the same. To not have to align a target within the Heads Up Display used for analog manual targeting. Instead you can just look at the target with your helmet no matter where it is, heck it can be beneath you under your jet and your helmet can let you see through it for crying out loud lol, and you can lock onto it like that. And in our jets the pilot didn’t even need to do anything but lock onto it. The WSO or “Wizzo” would take it from there so the pilot can get back to flying the jet. This is very handy in high stress quick decision dogfighting.
@@desertegle40calturning wrenches on legacy hornets and writing a bunch of words doesn’t qualify you on anything pertaining to avi or the f35. Everything you just said proves you don’t know what you’re talking about. Thanks!
Some site noted that the complete Sopwith Camel cost an inflation adjusted $250 k, with another 100k for the guns and ammo. Telling the pilot that his leather cap and motorcycle goggles have been replaced with helmet that cost more than the entire plane, armement, and the pilot's salary since he joined the RFC would probably be very painful... Then tell him that the jet this plugs into costs as much as 320 fully equipped Camels.....
Pilot - "Hey boss, do you know that $400,000 helmet? ... Well I'm taking it home for the weekend to put stickers and air brushed lightening bolts on to it!"
The TIE fighter pilots from Star Wars also have a free view from the cockpit thanks to cameras and they also have fighter data transmitted to their helmet. Conclusion: we are living in the future.
Ye i've always thinking that their helmet is something like in the video. Like how the hell you gonna fly with only a 2 by 2 meters window to look through?
About the conclusion, that's what I've been thinking for a while. Except for the spaceships, technology nowadays is reaching highs that make science fiction technology look ordinary or even clunky lol It's like that scene in Kingsman where they were showing james bond type of over the top gadgets and the guy asked 'what's special about this phone/tablets??' and they replied 'nothing, it's just a regular phone but this technology already caught up with the spy world'
My opa (passed in 2005) who flew for the RCAF from 1958-1965. No combat and he passed when i was 10. I hope when i die my last hallucination will be me and my opa pulling 9+ Gs just flying the skys. Miss you
@@jhiatt1516 they are inflated due to insurance companies working in tandem to insure that both hospitals and themselves are profitable at the expense of the average person.
A guy I shared a class with in college was an Apache pilot. He told me that he will never ever be upset paying his income taxes because the number of helmets that he had gone through was worth more than a life time of taxes. They are so sophisticated even back then, if they are dropped or slammed hard enough, it ruins the calibration. Its that sensitive. Maybe these new generation have improved on it.
DCS and War Thunder have better graphics but are technologically behind. Vtol has a lot of advanced features that the other games don't have. Plus you can fly what's basically an F-35.
@@ThatSpecificIndividual Its way better in my opinion Simpler graphics makes understanfing controls and systems easier It also means it can run on more devices
It costs as much as a few dozen bushings used on basic planes in the Air Force. (Those are like nuts and bolts that you can buy for a few dollars but the Air Force pays $90,000 for a small bag of them).
It’s cool in practice and has been around since and before the 2000s but it’s not as effective as using hand controls. It’s just not the greatest idea to have the aiming of your main weapon be controlled with the movement of your head.
@@Austin-cx2xeit does work pretty well in a pinch if you need some suppressing fire whilst flying low. As long as everything goes as briefed its never used though
The helmet is designed by Elbit Systems. The Israel Air Force pilots had similar advanced HUD helmets made by Elbit for their F-15/16s and the F35 program decided to adopt the design.
I’d guess almost all the cost is from the development and R&D. Since there’s only a couple hundred made, there’s less units to spread out the development costs out on.
I guess the concept of R&D costs escapes you. BTW they've gone down a lot since they were introduced, and will continue to go down. Just like most other tech does. Economics 101. ✌️
@@amb3cogeven factoring in R&D, there’s no way it costs that much my friend. The corruption with government contracting is no joke. You realize how big our defense budget is right? Far more than it should be.
Stay stupid even with R&D, a helmet that works exactly like AR glasses (those are cheap) and connect them to cameras. It's just classic defence spendings being wasted because friends owns the company, you take a share... If you don't believe it that's your problem @@amb3cog
@@bren.r when you take into calculation just how much processing power the helmets alone have (which the planes have even more of) it makes a lot of sense how much the helmets cost. The US has been working on this tech for decades at this point, with the first versions being a retrofit kit for the older helmets.
What they can't tell us is that this helmet allows for deep dive into an SAO like virtual world where F-35 pilots fight Chinese and Russian hackers on the dark web
Night vision goggles alone cost 15 thousand dollars. Precise carbon fibre layers in a helmet shape probably takes around 50k, the precise calibration of the hud is probably at least twenty thousand, and everything is military grade, and has been assured to work no matter what. The cost has also decreased by more than half. If they can stop a nuclear bomb heading towards my city, I would say it’s worth every penny.
@@pauloaz496 What part of they do you not understand, do you need me to explain why Americas clear air superiority against any other nation on earth is beneficial in times of war?
