Tag: Distributed Aperture System

British Streetfighter II Tank Has X-Ray Vision And Is All About The Urban Fight

Armies, Around The Globe, Europe, Land, News & Features, Royal Army, Tanks, United Kingdom,

The British Army recently showed off a new concept for a Challenger 2 main battle tank optimized for urban operations, dubbed Streetfighter II. The vehicle has an Israeli-made IronVision distributed vision system, which allows the crew to see in all directions even while riding inside with all the hatches closed and a mock-up of a launcher for the increasingly popular Brimstone anti-tank missile on top of the turret.

USAF Wants To Turn HC-130J’s Self Defense Suite Into “Sauron’s Eye” Vision System

Air, Air Forces, Airborne Countermeasures, Airborne Sensors, C-130, Transports, U.S. Air Force,

The U.S. Air Force wants to leverage the cameras in the directional infrared countermeasures system on the HC-130J Combat King II rescue aircraft and turn them into an augmented vision system, similar in general concept to the Distributed Aperture System on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, to give the crew better situational awareness. The service has nicknamed the project Sauron’s Eye, a reference to chief villain Sauron’s all-seeing magical eye in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the results could easily find their way onto any other aircraft with the similar self-protection systems installed.

Lockheed Tests Game-Changing F-35-Like X-Ray Vision System On Bell’s V-280 Valor

Air, Airborne Sensors, F-35, Fighters, Future Vertical Lift, Helicopters,

Lockheed Martin’s Pilotage Distributed Aperture Sensor, or PDAS, uses multiple cameras to offer pilots a 360-degree view around their aircraft, a game-changing capability that could improve their ability to avoid threats, navigate more safely, even at night and in other poor visibility conditions, and simply have better situational awareness overall during flight.