It's no wonder that the head of the headquarters is so surprised that there is no project for supporting equipment such as pilot helmet sight in China.
In the Su-27 imitation project undertaken by northeast Aviation Manufacturing Co., Ltd., there is a supporting development project of Russian pilot helmet sight.
The problem is that the project is located in the northeast and North China. At this moment, the head of the headquarters is in the southwest, thousands of miles away from the northeast.
In principle, there should be no such thing. As a result, this place not only magically appeared, but also made more complicated helicopter helmets.
Yes, in the 1990s, the pilot helmets of advanced armed helicopters represented by Apache were linked with the airborne infrared detection device, missile seeker and airborne fire control device, so that the pilots of Apache armed helicopters could be liberated from the complicated flight operation and target recognition. They only need to use the rotation of the head and the gaze of the eyes By using the weapon control lever, we can achieve the sci-fi feat of "where to look, where to hit".
Based on this, the U.S. Apache armed helicopter was able to sweep through Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War, so many Apache pilots said in an interview after the war:
when I saw the Iraqi tank, it died.
For a moment, people who don't know why feel that the United States is too powerful, and the advanced weapons are to see who will die. All kinds of groveling come in droves. People who understand the truth also offer their knees, not because of science fiction or not, but because of a sense of sadness that the older the river and the lake are, the less daring they are.
As for why, it's very simple. Because we know too much, we can understand the strength of American technology.
First of all, microelectronics. All search equipment and attack equipment are linked to helmets, which requires very powerful information and data solution capabilities. The chips, software, architecture and algorithms are all cutting-edge in related fields.
The second is that the helmet itself should control the weight. Combined with so many things, it can not bring physical burden to the pilot. After all, the pilot often has to bear heavy overload and excitement when flying. The pressure on the neck spine is already great. If he is in the top of a big iron lump weighing more than ten kilograms, the normal flight is OK. Once he is doing overload maneuver, the pilot is very likely to be unable to bear the head The load of the helmet was twisted directly.
So the total weight of this kind of pilot helmet must be controlled below 2kg. What's the concept? The weight of the domestic type 80 helmet is 1.25Kg, and the weight of two helmets exceeds the specification requirements of this kind of pilot helmet.
The problem is that nothing can be put on the helmet, but the pilot's helmet has to inherit all kinds of integrated circuits and complex components. Even so, the total weight can not exceed 2kg, which requires that the choice of helmet materials must be high-end lightweight materials, and must be subtle to every screw.
There are few high-end lightweight materials, and they need to be refined to screws, so it's hard to imagine.
Finally, the most critical is the visual optical equipment. It is not difficult to imagine that all information can be read by both eyes, and at the same time, it should maintain high transparency, which does not affect the normal flight vision of the pilot.
Although light transmission, display and integration are only small optical display devices, there are few countries in the world that can make such high value-added optical lenses. At present, only the United States and Europe have relevant industrial production capacity. Other countries, including Russia, can not reach the technical level of Europe and the United States.
Without advanced optical equipment, even if the front processing is better, it can not achieve the super ability of the pilot's helmet to see where it goes out.
However, all this seems to be completely overturned on the zhi-12 in the sky.
A 77 type 12.7mm heavy machine gun integrated on the remote control pan tilt is installed under the zhi-12 helicopter, which is less than 20 meters above the ground. A ball type optical detector is installed at the nose of the helicopter. Combined with the antennas and sensors of the whole body, the whole zhi-12 helicopter looks very different.
But the head of the headquarters is not concerned about these, but the action of staring at the 77 heavy machine gun and the ball optical detector.
It's not the traditional weapon and detection equipment pointing through the remote control control lever of the weapon, but the pilot can easily operate the weapon and ejection equipment when he turns his head. What does that mean?
The helmet on the head of the pilot of the zhi-12 helicopter has linked the weapon and detection system to achieve precise control of the helmet's directivity.
In addition to Apache and Comanche of the United States, there is no third example of rotary swing control of machine gun and optical sensor.
Because it also involves a very complex technical problem, that is the co direction interaction and cooperation of laser gyroscopes.
In other words, the pilot does not swing his head casually, and the weapons and detection equipment below really dance together. Instead, the three are embedded with small laser gyroscopes, which are connected in series through electrical signals, and the swing angle between the three is set according to the mathematical model. Only in this way can the pilot slightly raise his head, and the machine gun and optical detector become bigger Angle up, head down, both followed by staring at the ground.So much so that the machine gun and the optical probe are like loyal partners of the pilot, unconditional followers, and the pilot faces one enemy after another.
No matter what else, this scene alone makes the head of the headquarters feel passionate and excited.
I really didn't expect to see this kind of advanced helmet system comparable to the world's on domestic helicopters one day, even though it's only a temporary modified and ugly zhi-12 now, but the head of the headquarters believes that it won't be long before domestic armed helicopters will be equipped with this kind of advanced pilot helmet system.
"Chief, when did you come?"
Just as the head of the headquarters was looking up at the helicopter in the sky, a familiar cry came from his ear. The head of the headquarters looked for the sound and found that Zhuang Jianye did not know when he came running against the wind of the helicopter.
The head of the headquarters was not polite to Zhuang Jian either. He pointed to the helicopter that was landing. Regardless of the noise, he yelled, "did you make the new helmet on the pilot's head?"
Hearing this, Zhuang Jianye gave a proud smile and exclaimed in the loudest voice: "that's the latest research achievement of the optoelectronic research institute of Tengfei group, the integrated helmet display system for sniper pilots."
"Integrated display system?" The head of the headquarters immediately grasped the key in Zhuang Jianye's words, and a pair of eyebrows subconsciously wrinkled up: "not only to show the target?"
Zhuang Jianye's smile is more and more brilliant: "the real goal is just the primary function of the integrated display system of the sniper pilot's helmet. Its real ability is to see through everything!"