Comments on: The Freaky F-35 Lid

By: luke

luke — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:59:19 +0000

i for one welcome our fancy helmeted overlords.

By: Dan Pasternak

Dan Pasternak — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:47:03 +0000

This helmet made by jews.

By: Mikie

Mikie — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:11:48 +0000

The F-35 uses 6 wide field of view sensors, infrared, to provide spherical coverage. Cameras are mounted externally and fixed. Helmet provides a small window of information from the sphere, so pilot can look through the rear of the aircraft to see where his wing man is, as an example.

By: thepittman

thepittman — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:10:29 +0000

For those sayings just bandaid the F-15, i ask why? Building these planes provide more jobs which is good for america. The military budget might as well be making new equipment instead of fixing years old junk. Look at the humvee now. Instead of building a armored replacement for them(which they are doing now because they relized the trash they created) they produced these horrible vehicals covered in armor there chasis was never ment to hold. Have any of you driven these horrible uparmored humvees? The damn things have such a high center of gravity they will roll because of anything and i mean anything. Now think about trying to use a 70’s designed airframe and throw super enignes in them and all kinds of other junk they were never designed for. It will produce the same results. Another good example would be the stupid french helicopter that they are testing that needs A/C to function. In another year there gonna find more that is wrong and so on. Fix the problem at the begining buy eliminating the issue at the designers level like the did by producing these new aircraft. Ignorance costs lives. So does being cheap.
On the point of flying with pilots in the plane VS a super UAV fighter. As long as there are huge waiting lists for piliots that want to fly these aircraft why would you want to take this from them? They know the risks. They are more than happy to take them. They all love their jobs with a passion a feeling that most wouldn’t understand. Don’t coddle people that don’t want it. Im a soldier in iraq right now going on patrol everyday and interacting with the locals. I like my job and accept the dangers. I don’t like being babied. Have a nice day

By: Francis

Francis — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:18:21 +0000

Neat looking Gear. Maybe a cross between
a cat and Darth Vader.
To me this whole idea is like trying to ride
a Bicycle while wearing Binoculars your natural
senses go for a ball of.…..

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:00:07 +0000

We need to continue to have the edge over the world in tecnology. we will lead the way as a country represented by 160 nations. in order to secure freedom we have to lead with the most awesome tecnology we can muster. we need to be beyond reproach with our capabilities.
New designs will push the limit and secure peace in the world today and the future. I am a Army and Navy vet. we need to combine the forces we have into one unit for future missions. I am awe struck by the new gadgets that have come along. may these new designs continue to come along for the benifit of all mankind.

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:08:34 +0000

Mule. The quote misses one basic aspect of risk. LIFE is risky. You fall down in the shower? All over. You get in a billion dollar warplane with the coolest technogadgets and when you lose pressurization, or eat a duck at 500 knots, or flat forget what you are doing, you die anyhow. NO level of safety will ever be truly all consuming. There will always be risk. Minimizing those risks is critical to warfighting. That is what they do! These are not kamakazis! These men and women will not go a battalion at a time into the jaws of the waiting enemy. Foolish. So every level you can put between you and the enemy and still KILL the enemy is one level safer for my brother, your sister, and our loved ones. Nothing is ever truly safe, just safer.

By: TheUkearchy

TheUkearchy — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:48:26 +0000

The helmet is great, but people have said its getting close to unethical to have such an edge over theyre enemy. What maddness is this? were taling about war here not some freakish game people die here. and they die hard and wanting to be anywhere but here the more edge on our enemys the better! there is no rules in love and war. I wont be happy with our techknowldgy untill I can push a button and my enemys fall dead. wheather the next step is UAVs or maned aircraft the more edge the better. there is no ethical layer protecting us from anhilation of some kind of warrior spirit, which im all for, until we can replace it! thanks for reading my rant.

By: johnny electric

johnny electric — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:22:08 +0000

.…well,… neato! who cares about the cost its tax payers money, right? who should have the right to say what is defense budget or not… then again, what if that was your brilliant wha-toosy over the enemy/family member? the press.… lets talk about press, could there be any more democratic a group?!
people have comments on the HUD, lets hear them and not other matters like scraping planes or rebuilding them. This is about the new modern age of warfare adaptation and how to minimize friendly death and being able to send our troops home in one piece; forget about how to slam our government for trying to be safe with our military heroes!
I believe that what-ever the cost is negligble for saving human lives… our freedom comes first… long live the concepts to reality prototype. Have we forgotten what being a super power country has done for the world? Do we have problems? sure who doesnt, we are human!
(My two cents over the topics mentioned above that are way to the side of the cover story)

By: mule

mule — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:31:04 +0000

yeah, that Faolan USMC SGT has the right idea Quoted below). I used to just run up and bite them on the neck, but the spurting blood gets all over my glasses and I can’t see squat after that. Nowadays I stand back and stick them with my bayonet. I guess when you factor in the tails to the teeth, you get the majority of troops over on the coward’s side of the line.
Anyhow, it misses the point. The noise is about the toys, not the moral aspects of combat. Anyway you kill the enemy is the point of combat, not whether you meet him at high noon and both draw on three. It’s fun focus on the toys, but that’s all they are: cool tools.The time to worry about whether it’s moral or not at the meeting where they read to you the entire UCMJ.
quote: [Second, the moral side. Reducing risk is one thing (that