Gun camera footage a bygone era?
Ever since WWII, aerial combat has produced gun camera or HUD camera footage. Whether it was a P-51 shooting up a FW-190, an F-86 nailing a Mig-15, an F-105 gunning a Mig-17, or an F-15 getting a Hornet in its sights, such footage is always interesting to watch. It usually elicits lots of oohs and ahhs, if not HOOYAHs.
But with the F-35 HMDS, I doubt you could fit a camera in front of or beside the pilot's eyeballs without causing some major ergonomic issues. Will the F-35 be able to record what the pilot saw with accompanying display imagery at time X, or has the era of the gun/HUD camera come and gone?
The only thing that comes to mind is that with DAS, a computer program could probably reproduce or replicate what the pilot saw at time X, but will it be as good as the old gun camera / HUD video?
But with the F-35 HMDS, I doubt you could fit a camera in front of or beside the pilot's eyeballs without causing some major ergonomic issues. Will the F-35 be able to record what the pilot saw with accompanying display imagery at time X, or has the era of the gun/HUD camera come and gone?
The only thing that comes to mind is that with DAS, a computer program could probably reproduce or replicate what the pilot saw at time X, but will it be as good as the old gun camera / HUD video?
Take an F-16, stir in A-7, dollop of F-117, gob of F-22, dash of F/A-18, sprinkle with AV-8B, stir well + bake. Whaddya get? F-35.
You'll have to wait for the movie. I'm waiting for F-35C (mebbe the BEE VL?) Carrier Approach Video in 3D SurroundSound.
Dragon029 wrote:The HMDS already has a couple of cameras on the forehead, one to give the pilot night vision in the cockpit, another for debriefs and mission analysis.
Sounds like it is built in then. Now all I have to do is wait 10, 20, 30 years for some footage!
Take an F-16, stir in A-7, dollop of F-117, gob of F-22, dash of F/A-18, sprinkle with AV-8B, stir well + bake. Whaddya get? F-35.
Here's a close-up of the HMDS Gen III:
Now, I don't know exactly what is what, but if I were to guess:
#1 is the debrief camera - basically just a wide FOV, cellphone-style camera.
#2 might be an LED for lighting the cockpit with IR light.
#3 I'm not sure; could be a light sensor or something to handle camera exposure.
#4 The night vision camera - I did notice though that in at least one video (can't remember which one, so unfortunately I can't show you) that it almost looks like there's IR LEDs in this big aperture, so who knows, maybe I'm wrong and #3 is the NV camera, with #4 being an IR LED and #2 being a visual spectrum / white-light LED or something.
Now, I don't know exactly what is what, but if I were to guess:
#1 is the debrief camera - basically just a wide FOV, cellphone-style camera.
#2 might be an LED for lighting the cockpit with IR light.
#3 I'm not sure; could be a light sensor or something to handle camera exposure.
#4 The night vision camera - I did notice though that in at least one video (can't remember which one, so unfortunately I can't show you) that it almost looks like there's IR LEDs in this big aperture, so who knows, maybe I'm wrong and #3 is the NV camera, with #4 being an IR LED and #2 being a visual spectrum / white-light LED or something.
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