Check Out This Incredibly Rare Image Of An F-22 Pilot Wearing A Helmet Mounted Display
While initiatives and tests came and went, the F-22 still doesn’t have a helmet-mounted display a decade and a half after being declared operational.
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F-15 Uses New Infrared Search And Track Pod To Shoot Down Target With AIM-9X Sidewinder
Legion Pod will enable F-15s and F-16s to detect and engage even stealthy aircraft without having to turn on their radars.
F-22 Now Has AIM-9X But Still No Helmet Mounted Display To Use With It
The USAF is quick to tout that the F-22 Raptor fleet has been finally upgraded to use the AIM-9X Sidewinder—a long awaited move that will allow the most advanced fighter in the world to ditch the relatively ancient AIM-9M version of the iconic short-range air-to-air missile. But even with this new capability, F-22 pilots still lack a helmet mounted display (HMD) to take advantage of the missile’s high-off boresight (HOBS) abilities, and there doesn’t seem to be much talk about fixing this long standing deficiency in the near term.