Let’s say you’re piloting one of the United States Air Force’s shiny new F-35 fighters. Suddenly, below you, hostile tanks and rockets start firing. Not necessarily at you, just at something nearby.
Almost instantlyāand this footage was captured from a live test, so it worksāthe F-35’s Distributed Aperture System (DAS) picks up the fire, determines the vehicles are hostile and marks them not just on the radar, but on the display inside the pilot’s giant helmet
https://gizmodo.com/f-35-helmet-display-system-to-scare-the-bejeezus-out-of-260482
Silly real world. That’s what video games do.
I mean, I know this isn’t 100% guaranteed to work 100% of the timeāthe tech’s got “F-35 Under Fire For Friendly Fire” headlines written all over itābut even seeing it working in testing is insane.
All they need now is a checkpoint system and autosaves, and the USA are set
F-35 JSF Distributed Aperture System (DAS) Sensors [YouTube, via Gizmodo]
https://gizmodo.com/f-35s-pilots-get-iron-man-targeting-upgrade-5983760
