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> "The digital helmet projects what the pilot often sees from cameras, so the pilot isn't really looking through a window, but seeing through a digital camera."

• yellowapple 10y ago
  Right, but what part of the airplane figures out which things on the screen are friendly or hostile? Hint: it's squishy, on average less than two meters tall, and riding in the cockpit. Now granted, that can technically be done from outside the airplane, but if contact with the plane is lost for any reason, you lose that bit of wetware seated at the helm.
  • vitaminbandit 10y ago
    > but if contact with the plane is lost for any reason, you lose that bit of wetware seated at the helm. I agree with this, but this wasn't your original point.
  • engi_nerd 10y ago
    If this were a traditional (before 5th generation) aircraft, you'd be correct. But in the F-35, the pilot isn't the sensor fusion engine. The aircraft software has this responsibility in the F-35. The Fusion engine in the F-35 takes in information from the Radar, DAS, EOTS, Electronic Warfare, Comm and Navigation system, and data link information from other aircraft, and tries to figure out what that information means (is that an aircraft, what kind is it, is it friendly, etc).