In September 2011, to cover for a potential failure to deliver, the Defense Department contracted BAE systems to build a cheaper, lower-tech alternative to the HMDS. BAE’s alternate helmet used ...

The helmet is capable of a pilot ejection at 550 KEAS. That's 633 miles per hour (1,018 kph) for us mere mortals. To make all of this work, every Gen 3 HMDS foam helmet liner is custom-designed ...

One of the F-35 Lightning II’s most impressive and controversial components is the $400,000 helmet produced by a joint venture between Rockwell Collins and Elbit Systems of America. Plagued by […] ...

With a price tag of $400,000, Lockheed Martin's Helmet Mounted Display Systems (HMDS) is designed to give F-35 pilots unprecedented situational awareness by displaying airspeed, altitude ...

It is called “HMDS Gen II” and it is produced by Vision Systems International (VSI), the same company that has designed the very well known JHMCS (Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System) worn by ...

Pilots flying the Typhoon FGR4, wearing their Striker HMDs (Helmet-Mounted Display), would have found this to be exactly the kind of situation where those specialized helmets were designed to ...

The F-35 Gen III Helmet Mounted Display System (HMDS), with the tremendous price tag of $400,000, is so advanced that it lets pilots see through their own airframe.

The US Department of Defense is upgrading the "look and shoot" helmet displays used by F-35, F-15, F-16 and F-18 pilots F-35s are getting the latest version (the US–Israeli HMDS, Helmet-Mounted ...

The HMDS is of course the centerpiece of the helmet. It comprises a head-up display (HUD), helmet-mounted display, and visor-projected night vision, but can also be used to target the weapons of ...

Pilots flying the Typhoon FGR4, wearing their Striker HMDs (Helmet-Mounted Display), would have found this to be exactly the kind of situation where those specialized helmets were designed to ...