Wish there was a part of the airplane that wasn't $400k
There are probably very few parts on that plane that are cheaper than 400k.
The F-35's $400k helmet
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#12> There was a latency in the video, which caused pilots motion sicknes
Just visualizing this makes me feel sick. Imagine executing high-G maneuvers but seeing an image that doesn't correspond to what you feel...
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#13Coincidentally the same cost as the Eurofigher Typhoon's helmet: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/24/us-airshow-helmets... > Costing about 250,000 pounds ($400,100) apiece, the helmets will be deployed in all Typhoons, of which Eurofighter has delivered 278 to six air forces and has orders for 429 more.
Guess this explains why :
>>"Things got so bad that in 2011 the Pentagon hired BAE Systems to build a back-up helmet in case the one in development couldn’t be rescued"
Particularly why BAE for Typhoon already had it around the same time.
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#14> There was a latency in the video, which caused pilots motion sicknes Just visualizing this makes me feel sick. Imagine executing high-G maneuvers but seeing an image that doesn't correspond to what you feel...
Intuitively, the view already doesn't correspond to what you see, even if you're only a commercial pilot. That's why planes have attitude indicators.
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#15Lolz!
Who does not recognize this article as complete propagandistic advertisement for a project completely over in time and budget that even fails competing with its competitors.
Just besides that it's a weapon for killing people. Wake up.
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#16Like the plane, the helmet is enormously expensive. The cost of each custom-made helmet is more than $400,000.
They've come down in price. When I did my honours at a defence science base in '96, it was using a helmet obtained "second-hand and shop-soiled" for $600k - the helmet had a monocle that projected a HUD onto your retina. Apparently it was an Apache gunship pilot's helmet.
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#17From the article:
> a stealthy fighter jet years that is often called a flying computer because of its more than 8 million lines of code
For all the critics, all the hate vs drones and leaner fighters and bombers, the F-35 _is_ an impressive engineering feat and a turning point, especially re:software.
At some point, a "Snow Leopard" version of the F-35 will turn out as a very fine piece of equipment, only possibly without the initial cost benefits expectations. Also: most learnings will probably be lost because the project will not have a decisive cost/performance advantage despite its complexity. The plane won't have a successor.
Hopefully we can hear at some point of contractors who worked on its systems.
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#18All this technology just to kill people. It is a sad world we live in.
"Peace... through superior firepower."
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#19> There was a latency in the video, which caused pilots motion sicknes Just visualizing this makes me feel sick. Imagine executing high-G maneuvers but seeing an image that doesn't correspond to what you feel...
Intuitively, the view already doesn't correspond to what you see, even if you're only a commercial pilot. That's why planes have attitude indicators.
It actually does most of the time, when the weather is fine.
Planes have attitude indicators for when you can't see anything,e.g when you fly inside a cloud.
But you don't need attitude indicators when you can see the horizon.
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#20All this technology just to kill people. It is a sad world we live in.
looking at the low tech - WWII style - war in Ukraine with a lot of civil population and property being hit, intentionally and unintentionally, i'd take high tech any time over it. For example when a full salvo (16) of unguided missiles (from "Uragan" system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-27_Uragan ) with 100Kg cluster warheads rains over the center of large city (Donetsk) ... i wish that US give Ukraine high-precis…
No modern Russain Federation tanks can be seen around Donetsk (like T-14 or at least T-90). No regular army either (except DPR army).