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We are within 50 years of elite units of soldiers using full ballistic helmets with integrated HUD, comms, and data feed of whatever type is required.
F35 Helmet is an example of a good try. Not a success but a try. It's going to happen. |
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Rapidly approaching the point were the hud will be better than Mark 1 eyeballs-then no real need for any clear lense.
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need Boba Fett guns https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e0/b8/e8/e0b8e8e85d0e26aca70ebfaf4e11d587.jpg View Quote |
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I question the authenticity of the photo in the article.
Is that a Flaming Pig? |
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Another gem from the article, because 44 magnum is the preferred weapon of our enemies
It is said to protect soldiers’ heads from a shot from a Magnum 44 round. View Quote |
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Guy #2 in photo is only wearing the front half/mask portion! The back of his head.... going commando?
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That shit looks like it's tailored for the happy meal crowd and very un-mandalorian. Probably came with crayons.
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I could see this being useful in a small room breaching team, as you go through the door I'd guess you want every square inch of your frontal exposure areas covered, but for normal ops, this seems like a lot of weight, fogging, extra batteries and stuff to break down, loss of vision etc.
I could see if this mounted 360 IR/NV cameras, and you actually monitor a screen ala iron man with a 360 battle info system, might be worth the weight penalty maybe..... |
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You noticed that too, eh? "Journalism"is a bad joke. http://www.montgomeryduffle.com/au/media/wysiwyg/Heritage2.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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From the article: "The SAS is the UK’s answer to the Navy SEALs." The SAS was founded in 1941 as a regiment, and later reconstituted as a corps in 1950. SEALs the first two teams were formed in January 1962. http://www.montgomeryduffle.com/au/media/wysiwyg/Heritage2.jpg |
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These cats may actually be the long range desert group....not the SAS troop, the original photo has David Sterling standing to the right of the photo. The LRDG did conduct the early raids with PM so it could be said they are SAS, much like OSS Jedburg teams are considered SF. Regardless, they were hard man. For more on this this I recommend ROGUE HEROES by David Macintyre. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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From the article: "The SAS is the UK’s answer to the Navy SEALs." The SAS was founded in 1941 as a regiment, and later reconstituted as a corps in 1950. SEALs the first two teams were formed in January 1962. http://www.montgomeryduffle.com/au/media/wysiwyg/Heritage2.jpg |
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Boba Fett uses keymod. You should too. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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need Boba Fett guns https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e0/b8/e8/e0b8e8e85d0e26aca70ebfaf4e11d587.jpg |
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As someone who has played paintball and also done numerous sim trainings, those things are going to be hot and will collect sweat and fog over. Fucking dumb.
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I'm not seeing the resemblance... https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/348209/image-270430.JPG View Quote |
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I follow Devtac Japan on Facebook and they're an interesting company.
Right now, their bread-n-butter seems to be the non-ballistic Airsoft market, who will seemingly drop loads of cash on replicating whatever it is they see in the latest console FPS games. However, I won't fault them for "following the money". If it sells and makes them money, at least from their standpoint as a business, "then they ain't stupid". And on the actual ballistic side of their business, they have been testing different hard ceramic and aramid fiber armors, and test them with .44 magnum at point-blank range. They also have been working quite hard on the ergonomic and comfort issues too. There's a fan/ventilation system to keep the head and face cool, and the lenses clear, and the lenses themselves don't seem to block vision any more than wrap-around ballistic sunglasses would. They also have attachment points and mounting systems in/on the helmets for integrating lights, a HUD for maps or FLIR, and comms. I don't know that Devtac Japan will ever "make it", and be a primary supplier of such helmets if/when they become common in shooting, military, or LEO circles, but I am confident a lot of their "prior art", especially in terms of ergonomics, comfort, and modular armor panels WILL find their way into the designs of whoever does pick the ball up and run with it. And Devtac themselves is about as "WTF" over the errors and assumptions in the news article, from the comparisons of the SAS to the SEALs, or that the HUD is inside the helmet, when it's a clip on outside of it etc. |
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We are within 50 years of elite units of soldiers using full ballistic helmets with integrated HUD, comms, and data feed of whatever type is required. F35 Helmet is an example of a good try. Not a success but a try. It's going to happen. View Quote That kind of stuff is a lot better suited to pilots than to guys on the ground dealing with temperature extremes, dust, dirt, mud, and impacts. ETA: 10 years ago we were having to put freaking plastic bags over radio hand mics to keep water out of them during FTX's. |
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Obviously most of you haven't opseced... I imagine the peripheral vision would still be better then a set of old school nods that facilitated many the journey to mecca. Not having to mess with a separate device balanced off your forehead and the ability to go thermal in a second? Who wouldn't want that? Cooling would be an issue if the internal system failed but still. It's gonna happen
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Obviously most of you haven't opseced... I imagine the peripheral vision would still be better then a set of old school nods that facilitated many the journey to mecca. Not having to mess with a separate device balanced off your forehead and the ability to go thermal in a second? Who wouldn't want that? Cooling would be an issue if the internal system failed but still. It's gonna happen View Quote I joke but for reelz. |
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We are within 50 years of elite units of soldiers using full ballistic helmets with integrated HUD, comms, and data feed of whatever type is required. F35 Helmet is an example of a good try. Not a success but a try. It's going to happen. View Quote Probably will have integrated thermal/IR + enhanced peripheral vision. Armored and air conditioned..... But how do you do all that and not have it be monstrously heavy. |
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Sight picture is hard to impossible to get with full enclosed helmet.
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Perfect for the British Police: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ejVPBkQpSKI/maxresdefault.jpg PICK UP THAT CAN CITIZEN View Quote Ps you are the one constantly telling us we are not citizens we are subjects. Try a bit of consistency eh. |
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Says US is already using them. View Quote Someone on here actually wrote it out in a very nice manner, but imagine an F35 loitering over a battlefield sending real time data to infantry on the ground showing friendly and enemy locations with built in HUD, map and GPS, range finding, ballistic, kestrel, and translation capabilities. Look at how small your phone is, think of all the capabilities it has, and put that tech into a level III ballistic helmet. Give it plug and play capabilities for stuff like radios, switching or charging batteries, or connecting to a device to send or receive data packets. The concept is in the works, it is real, and it is the future. It might be a decade or so before we start seeing regulars being fitted with this kind of tech, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a slow creep through SOF down to other MOS' like JTAC or select CO's and FTL's and what not. If and when the tech gets to this point, I think the trade off of peripheral vision and mobility (obviously support gear will be require ie batteries, transmitters or transponders, etc and so forth) to be able to see every enemy combatant for miles with the press of a button allowing the troops to fight smarter with more up to date information and more capabilities with less equipment. This kind of technology will be a force multiplier simply because it takes a lot of guess work out of the job and streamlines all of that information into a piece of equipment that's primary purpose is to provide ballistic protection. The whole conversation with him was pretty interesting, to the point where he said Obama was right for cancelling the F22 in favor of the F35 because the new technology that is being worked on for the regular infantry hinges on the success of the F35 and it's technology. He even implied that the F35 is the only strike aircraft ever that could never get a kill and still be a complete success because of what it can bring to the table for the boots on the ground going forward. The conversation came up in the context of my military equipment related invention being designed for today and why I should consider adapting it a bit for the very near future. So my project went from being something that isn't really new, just better and more streamlined, into being something that is actually new taking things from just being a leg up to a stupid advantage, but I still have quite a few very technical problems that I am in the process of figuring out. We will be fighting wars very differently in a relatively short time. It will be very interesting to see it all pan out over time as far as lenses versus visors and projectors versus displays are concerned, not to mention what will and will not be Kevlar in the final design. This topic is something that has somewhat captivated my interest for the last year or two, primarily because I am convinced that this kind of force multiplier is something that no one else is capable of duplicating with any real success any time soon while we're bring HALO IRL in our lifetimes. As they say, knowledge is power. |
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I suspect this is correct. Probably will have integrated thermal/IR + enhanced peripheral vision. Armored and air conditioned..... But how do you do all that and not have it be monstrously heavy. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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We are within 50 years of elite units of soldiers using full ballistic helmets with integrated HUD, comms, and data feed of whatever type is required. F35 Helmet is an example of a good try. Not a success but a try. It's going to happen. Probably will have integrated thermal/IR + enhanced peripheral vision. Armored and air conditioned..... But how do you do all that and not have it be monstrously heavy. |
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I can tell by the pixels that these are the spoken words of a seasoned vet.
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I dunno. They've been working on that kind of thing for the better part of 30 years and so far the results have been anything but spectacular. That kind of stuff is a lot better suited to pilots than to guys on the ground dealing with temperature extremes, dust, dirt, mud, and impacts. ETA: 10 years ago we were having to put freaking plastic bags over radio hand mics to keep water out of them during FTX's. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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We are within 50 years of elite units of soldiers using full ballistic helmets with integrated HUD, comms, and data feed of whatever type is required. F35 Helmet is an example of a good try. Not a success but a try. It's going to happen. That kind of stuff is a lot better suited to pilots than to guys on the ground dealing with temperature extremes, dust, dirt, mud, and impacts. ETA: 10 years ago we were having to put freaking plastic bags over radio hand mics to keep water out of them during FTX's. |
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Sas is the answer to the seals???? Someone needs to pull out a history book
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