you fly an f-16?
Not at the moment...but I'm getting there. Lucky I am, but believe me, luck alone won't even get you close.
/GEA
GoodLuck GEA :). I can never be a pilot :(, cause if i could i'm already in some jet right now.
Does the helmet-mounted display amount to putting the HUD on the visor? I wonder how the helmet senses which way the pilot is looking - and whether there is a lag between the pilot turning his head and the display adjusting accordingly.
Seems to me that with helmet-mounted displays and the new generation of missiles, the days of dogfighting are drawing to a close. Who gets in the first shot will get the kill. In future it will be all about knowing where the enemy is (meaning AWACS and datalinks) and having missiles that outrange the enemy's. What do you think GEA?
Charles
Yes, the HMD replaces the HUD. The idea is that you have the necessary flight data ALL the time and not only when you're looking right ahead through the HUD. There is no lag and the HMD automatically switches off when you look straight ahead so you don't get "double" readings through the HUD and HMD.
It's hard to say whether the days of dog-fights are numbered. After WWII they said that the new aircraft (jet driven) would be too fast to dog fight. In Korea with the first jets seeing combat operations they soon found themselves in dog fights between F86's and MiG15's. After Korea they were sure that the dog fight days were over - with missiles they would be able to shoot the enemy without ever needing gund. So Mc Donnell Douglas designed the super F4 Phantom without a gun - they regretted it and had to make an external pod containing a gun because of the dog fights. After Nam with the advent of advanced radars the need for dogfights was still there. And even now with BVR weapons such as the AMRAAM, sometimes it's necessary for a visual ID and before you know it, you're in a dog fight. It's amazing how little time it takes from when you see the "dot in the sky" until it's flown by your side and you merge. The proximity speed of two jets flying head on is unbelievable.
So I don't dare say what future air wars will be like. One thing is certain though: If you get locked by the new 9X there's little chance of flying back home to your base that day.
SA is very important indeed. The ideal way is to get a missile off the rails and hit the enemy at BVR without him ever knowing it, but that's of course rarely the case...
/GEA
One thing is certain though: If you get locked by the new 9X there's little chance of flying back home to your base that day.
Except maybe with a pair of short fluffy wings and a halo :mrgreen:
One thing is certain though: If you get locked by the new 9X there's little chance of flying back home to your base that day.
Except maybe with a pair of short fluffy wings and a halo :mrgreen:
:lol: