I mean, this is the military, so the fact that they’re paying the cost of a small house for a helmet doesn’t necessarily mean there’s anything that special about it.
@SkyStrider99 that's not how it works. Military gets stuff cheap ALOT cheaper than civilians however the structure durability and the strength is a huge factor of the price
It takes tens of millions of dollars to train a pilot, the jet itself is like 100 million. spending a few thousand on a helmet that can improve sa is not much.
$14,000 per toilet seat, $600 per hammer $35 per drywall screw $400k for a helmet sounds about right for the grifting MIC. "Wars a racket!" -General Smedley D. Butler.
No jet is more valuable than a pilot, because he can fly many of them, and a jet without pilot is worthless. It's actually a rule to eject and not to try and save an aircraft in critical situations
Let’s be honest / you can make that same quality in Japan for less than 70%. It’s $400K because US Congress is in bed with military industrial complex. Defense contractors own Congress. Over half our yearly budget goes to excessive military spending but no one says anything because then you get called “unpatriotic.” It’s $400K cuz the defense contractor who makes this overpriced jet, has the only key to the software so of course they get to charge $400K for a FREAKING Helmet. While republicans say we have a debt problem and clamor we need to cut spending, don’t ever listen to them or anyone if they don’t include military spending cuts as well. If we cut military spending by half from $850B/yr to $425B/year, WE WOULD STILL SPEND MORE THAN THE NEXT top 5 nations combined!
Muchos de estas innovaciones vienen de estudiantes de Maesteias, inclusive ellos sin saber lo que están haciendo y para quien lo hacen. Los aportes se hacen por partes para que no se sepa lo que estás haciendo o el producto final.
Bro. I’ve been in a wheelchair for the last almost 18 years. Medicare and Medicaid are supposed to purchase one every 5 years. They’ve paid for one. An we had to literally go to court for almost 5 years with an advocacy group just to get that. Now I’ve got two blown out elbows from using an old and heavy chair because they don’t wanna pay for the one my doctors and therapists prescribed to me so that I can work and have a life. Medicare and Medicaid tell me I only need to get around in my house. That’s all they care about. But $400k helmet for our Air Force that’s rarely ever in a dogfight. No biggie.
@@crimpinurpimpinthat helmet saves the lives of many soldiers potentially while getting you a new wheelchair on the governments dime helps make your life slightly easier. Probably one of the most selfish entitled statements I’ve ever seen.
Thomas Sowell said it best “When you spend other people’s money, you are not concerned with the price.” It also helps when your buddy owns the civilian company and is probably writing you a check.
@@20vtechnikThomas Sowell did not believe this applied to military spending. He advocated for *increasing* military spending at the cost of basic social goods like pensions. Because Thomas Sowell was generally a "for hire" fake economist who advocated for a world where large swaths of poor Americans were coerced into working for a tiny aristocracy of private warlords. This was his ideal configuration.
And before you say "you shouldn't have to pay 200mo!" Well guess what, if we lived in Europe we'd have 40% of our income taken to pay for insurance. I'd much rather spend $2400/year on $160k/year income than only bring home $95k of my $160k income. Free Healthcare is not free. They just take it in the form of taxes instead of monthly fees.
And the helmet from China will only work for 30minutes. Theres a reason all their stuff is so cheap, dont be confused they use that same quality for their own people as well.@@machinefannatic99
lockheed martin developer: "sir we have a finished state of the art helmet and it only cost $40k lockheed martin ceo: "shh let me ask the US Dept of Defense if they have budget for $40k US Department of Defense: "Alright we have $800 billion dollar and we want that state of the art helmet" lockeed martin ceo: "it will cost you $400k sir
@@BaLaMuTt89 looking as good and being as good quality are not the same. The T-14 looks impressive, but it must also have invisibility because there hasn’t been one seen in 2 years in Ukraine
@@BaLaMuTt89The Russians are incapable of producing electronics and sensors on this level, it's the whole reason their doctrine relies on area denial assets like SAMs. If they were this good Ukraine would have fallen in 2022 NATO support or no NATO support.
The helmet actually costs less now. The cost seems to have decreased to 200K (as of 2017) as production got streamlined and the technology made more common. We can expect the cost to go down even further
Just like F-35s themselves. They also got massively cheaper as economics of scale set in. Forget the bullshit you hear about the 35. Despite some issues, the programme has been a massive and I mean really massive success
Actually 400k is probably a reasonable price. Sounds crazy, but imagine how much R&D goes into making something like this for such a niche market. They don't have the advantage of manufacturing millions of these and making money through volume. So to justify the initial investment to design and manufacture them, the cost has to be high.
@@dimisegers3095It’s to protect the pilot actually as that matters more than the jet. A skilled pilot is very hard to replace and a jet is much easier. That’s why they tell the pilot to eject instead of allowing them to try to save the plane.
@@duke1281maybe about what taxes are so high? At least this is an investment into our countries safety and not just being given to another country we somehow "owe" money.
Some site noted that the complete Sopwith Camel cost an inflation adjusted $250 k, with another 100k for the guns and ammo. Telling the pilot that his leather cap and motorcycle goggles have been replaced with helmet that cost more than the entire plane, armement, and the pilot's salary since he joined the RFC would probably be very painful... Then tell him that the jet this plugs into costs as much as 320 fully equipped Camels.....
Our pilots in the Navy had these things 20 years ago and this is the first time I’m seeing a video about one on youtube and I am subscribed to many military channels. We used to call them Rhino Helmets.. But that is probably because our squadron flew F/A-18 Super Hornets and on the carrier they were always announced as “Rhinos” when they landed and at the time, only our squadrons pilots had the Rhino Helmets. Or being described as having “Rhino Intakes” because they were big square and bulky looking. One of our pilots let me wear his one day and explained that he doesn’t have to get a target inside the target box on the HUD to lock onto it like other jets have. He could simply look at the target and lock on with his helmet and that was it. He didn’t even need to fire it. The WSO in the back seat (Weapons Systems Officer) or “Wizzo” as we called them, could take it from there while the pilot went back to flying the jet. Those helmets make things super easy for the pilot.
@@Yaboifootchie there’s not one thing in this video that I already didn’t know that helmet did. So they are quite literally the same helmet and they look the same. So tell me, since you have more experience with jets, pilots, the Navy and all that, what’s the difference between the two helmets then? Since me being a Plane Captain who got his name on his squadrons show jet, meaning i was the best of 70 plane captains and there were only 12 jets and I spent literally day in and day out with these things for 5 years during operations Iraqi and enduring freedom, please tell me where im wrong. Since they look and do the SAME THING, they quite literally are the same helmet. Except maybe my pilot’s helmet was tantamount to an iPhone 2 and right now they are on iPhone 15. Ya get me? One of our pilots even mentioned to me he never uses his HUD for locking on anymore because he just does it with his helmet. It fed all sorts of information to him. Including how far away the target is before they are within locking range. And you could even lock on to more than one enemy for simple positioning information. Like if you happen to lock onto three jets flying in front of you before they know you are there or paying attention to you but then do notice you and split up, your helmet will track them so you don’t lose them in the sun and stuff.. Little red and green arrows that show where the jet is if they aren’t in your field of view. I left out allot of things that helmet can do. Including stuff I know that wasn’t in my pilots helmet like that smart glass sun dampening system or whatever I saw on Not What You Think RUclips Chanel. That can dampen the sun if you are trying to escape towards the sun so you don’t blind yourself. So tell me, what is the difference between these two helmets since they seem to be doing the same thing for the pilot. And for future reference, if youre going to comment like you just did, do us a favor and stop being one of these lazy gen Z’ers who only thing and speak in the character limit of friggin twitter. Expound on your comment or risk looking like a momo..
I can’t claim to know more than you but from what I can tell there were some technical upgrades but also some cool new features. They were designed along with the F35 so the technology is completely integrated into the jet itself. They also have improved night vision camera, new liquid-crystal displays, automated alignment and software improvements including being able to show what fellow pilots and their jets see and being able to essentially see “through” the jets bc of all the built in cameras. The new software also synthesizes all the input information in a way that didn’t exist before, you mentioned locking into a few different jets and it would track them so this one detects threats even before the pilot can see them, keeps track of it and shares the information with the other pilots. Anyway I just find them fascinating and apparently now they’re working on AI software for them so the pilots would be able not only to see through F35s but be able to “see” into enemy jets.
@@princessglitterbutt5984 yeah a few jets have helmets like these now. Back when I was in the Navy, every single carrier I was on and every time we did detachments to other bases like Top Gun in Fallon NV or the Kew West Base here in Florida, our pilots were the only ones walking around the flight line with “Rhino” Helmets on. Now even the air force has them, hence the video and why i said I have been into jets and the military air support of the United States since the early 2000s and this is the first time I’m seeing a video explaining them.. Each jet is different and made specifically to do a specific job. We don’t have multiples renditions of the same type of jet that do the same thing so one could deduce that each helmet made for a specific jet is different. But my point was that in 20 something years this is the first time I ever saw a video or another pilot other than a Navy pilot using these things. And one could probably also deduce that straight Fighter or Strike Fighter jets (Air to air dogfighting jets conducting air superiority), as opposed to straight Attack jets (bombing only) or like my F/A -18 Super Hornets which can do both Fighting and Attacking, do not have the Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) pods that can help the pilot see through their own fuselage. I wasn’t saying this was the EXACT SAME helmet. But they are basically performing the same functions, maybe with a few software upgrades but the purpose is still the same. To not have to align a target within the Heads Up Display used for analog manual targeting. Instead you can just look at the target with your helmet no matter where it is, heck it can be beneath you under your jet and your helmet can let you see through it for crying out loud lol, and you can lock onto it like that. And in our jets the pilot didn’t even need to do anything but lock onto it. The WSO or “Wizzo” would take it from there so the pilot can get back to flying the jet. This is very handy in high stress quick decision dogfighting.
@@desertegle40calturning wrenches on legacy hornets and writing a bunch of words doesn’t qualify you on anything pertaining to avi or the f35. Everything you just said proves you don’t know what you’re talking about. Thanks!
The TIE fighter pilots from Star Wars also have a free view from the cockpit thanks to cameras and they also have fighter data transmitted to their helmet. Conclusion: we are living in the future.
Ye i've always thinking that their helmet is something like in the video. Like how the hell you gonna fly with only a 2 by 2 meters window to look through?
About the conclusion, that's what I've been thinking for a while. Except for the spaceships, technology nowadays is reaching highs that make science fiction technology look ordinary or even clunky lol It's like that scene in Kingsman where they were showing james bond type of over the top gadgets and the guy asked 'what's special about this phone/tablets??' and they replied 'nothing, it's just a regular phone but this technology already caught up with the spy world'
Pilot - "Hey boss, do you know that $400,000 helmet? ... Well I'm taking it home for the weekend to put stickers and air brushed lightening bolts on to it!"
@@jhiatt1516 they are inflated due to insurance companies working in tandem to insure that both hospitals and themselves are profitable at the expense of the average person.
My opa (passed in 2005) who flew for the RCAF from 1958-1965. No combat and he passed when i was 10. I hope when i die my last hallucination will be me and my opa pulling 9+ Gs just flying the skys. Miss you
A guy I shared a class with in college was an Apache pilot. He told me that he will never ever be upset paying his income taxes because the number of helmets that he had gone through was worth more than a life time of taxes. They are so sophisticated even back then, if they are dropped or slammed hard enough, it ruins the calibration. Its that sensitive. Maybe these new generation have improved on it.
This is what separates American war fighters from the rest of the world. We value the lives of our men and women in uniform and will shell out astronomical amount of dollars to ensure their tactical advantage on the battlefield, their safety and also sometimes their comfort. If you go in to a situation with a technological advantage over your enemy and are safe and in moderate comfort, you are more likely to perform at 100% motivation rather than 50% for a country that could care less about their men in arms. This is why we live in the finest nation on Earth. In my humble opinion. 🇺🇲
It costs as much as a few dozen bushings used on basic planes in the Air Force. (Those are like nuts and bolts that you can buy for a few dollars but the Air Force pays $90,000 for a small bag of them).
What they can't tell us is that this helmet allows for deep dive into an SAO like virtual world where F-35 pilots fight Chinese and Russian hackers on the dark web
It’s cool in practice and has been around since and before the 2000s but it’s not as effective as using hand controls. It’s just not the greatest idea to have the aiming of your main weapon be controlled with the movement of your head.
@@Austin-cx2xeit does work pretty well in a pinch if you need some suppressing fire whilst flying low. As long as everything goes as briefed its never used though
The helmet is designed by Elbit Systems. The Israel Air Force pilots had similar advanced HUD helmets made by Elbit for their F-15/16s and the F35 program decided to adopt the design.
I guess the concept of R&D costs escapes you. BTW they've gone down a lot since they were introduced, and will continue to go down. Just like most other tech does. Economics 101. ✌️
@@amb3cogeven factoring in R&D, there’s no way it costs that much my friend. The corruption with government contracting is no joke. You realize how big our defense budget is right? Far more than it should be.
Stay stupid even with R&D, a helmet that works exactly like AR glasses (those are cheap) and connect them to cameras. It's just classic defence spendings being wasted because friends owns the company, you take a share... If you don't believe it that's your problem @@amb3cog
@@bren.r when you take into calculation just how much processing power the helmets alone have (which the planes have even more of) it makes a lot of sense how much the helmets cost. The US has been working on this tech for decades at this point, with the first versions being a retrofit kit for the older helmets.
I’d guess almost all the cost is from the development and R&D. Since there’s only a couple hundred made, there’s less units to spread out the development costs out on.
Night vision goggles alone cost 15 thousand dollars. Precise carbon fibre layers in a helmet shape probably takes around 50k, the precise calibration of the hud is probably at least twenty thousand, and everything is military grade, and has been assured to work no matter what. The cost has also decreased by more than half. If they can stop a nuclear bomb heading towards my city, I would say it’s worth every penny.
@@pauloaz496 What part of they do you not understand, do you need me to explain why Americas clear air superiority against any other nation on earth is beneficial in times of war?
DCS and War Thunder have better graphics but are technologically behind. Vtol has a lot of advanced features that the other games don't have. Plus you can fly what's basically an F-35.
@@ThatSpecificIndividual Its way better in my opinion Simpler graphics makes understanfing controls and systems easier It also means it can run on more devices
Recently I asked a gentleman, Recently retired from the USMC, 20 years on carrier decks, arming FA-18s for the gulf War, knows his stuff. Asked him if we got into a shooting war with ANY other country would we win. Answer, yes. Q., how long would it take. A., not long, they wouldn't even see us coming. Q., not even our missiles? A., nope
You know its good when a helmet costs 2 Humvees....
More like 4-5 lol
I mean, this is the military, so the fact that they’re paying the cost of a small house for a helmet doesn’t necessarily mean there’s anything that special about it.
@SkyStrider99 that's not how it works. Military gets stuff cheap ALOT cheaper than civilians however the structure durability and the strength is a huge factor of the price
It takes tens of millions of dollars to train a pilot, the jet itself is like 100 million. spending a few thousand on a helmet that can improve sa is not much.
Wish the army made me a custom built helmet wtf 😭
I'd say thats what happens when you have a $800 billion defense budget
You’re welcome
And no Healthcare
@@parhamghavami5086we spend more money on Medicare than the military budget
You're missing another $100 billion in there
I LOVE THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX !!!!!!!!
QUADRUPLE THE DEFENCE BUDGET!!!!!
…….accidentally drops helmet worth the commander-in-chiefs’ annual salary
$14,000 per toilet seat, $600 per hammer $35 per drywall screw $400k for a helmet sounds about right for the grifting MIC.
"Wars a racket!"
-General Smedley D. Butler.
100%
Came here to say the same thing.👍🏻
35$ per drywall screw??
@@oliviersavard8676uhhhh well yah. That screw is gonna protect your freedom. Lol
In fairness that helmet is really tricky to make
Ejection seat is to protect the headset, not the pilot.
No jet is more valuable than a pilot, because he can fly many of them, and a jet without pilot is worthless. It's actually a rule to eject and not to try and save an aircraft in critical situations
@@CounterHot i was just joking, knowing how stingy our armed forces can be.
@@haroldgarson4800 uh okay, I'm sorry
The pilot is a bonus😅
Underrated
Pawn shop be like:
I can give you $50, not a dime more
😂😂😂
I'm taking all the risk here. Let me get my buddy who's an expert on F-35 helmets. *Maverick walks in*
😂😂😂@@ChrisZukowski88
“Best I can do is 400” - Rick from pawn stars, probably
The only thing I will pawn is gold. Nothing else.
You know it's military stuff when it costs 50x it's worth including R&D
Let’s be honest / you can make that same quality in Japan for less than 70%.
It’s $400K because US Congress is in bed with military industrial complex. Defense contractors own Congress.
Over half our yearly budget goes to excessive military spending but no one says anything because then you get called “unpatriotic.”
It’s $400K cuz the defense contractor who makes this overpriced jet, has the only key to the software so of course they get to charge $400K for a FREAKING Helmet.
While republicans say we have a debt problem and clamor we need to cut spending, don’t ever listen to them or anyone if they don’t include military spending cuts as well.
If we cut military spending by half from $850B/yr to $425B/year, WE WOULD STILL SPEND MORE THAN THE NEXT top 5 nations combined!
did i just see the future of apple?
$10k for the helmet + $390k defense contractor fees
Lol and the helmet researched and designed itself
Exactly
Lmfao yep. And those CEO’s pocket 50%+ of the $390K
Muchos de estas innovaciones vienen de estudiantes de Maesteias, inclusive ellos sin saber lo que están haciendo y para quien lo hacen. Los aportes se hacen por partes para que no se sepa lo que estás haciendo o el producto final.
10% for the big guy?
Healthcare: No
$400k helmets: Hell yeah..
Somebody’s got to defend our right to overpriced healthcare 😏
"insert line from starship troopers here"
Hahaha! So true.
Bro. I’ve been in a wheelchair for the last almost 18 years. Medicare and Medicaid are supposed to purchase one every 5 years. They’ve paid for one. An we had to literally go to court for almost 5 years with an advocacy group just to get that. Now I’ve got two blown out elbows from using an old and heavy chair because they don’t wanna pay for the one my doctors and therapists prescribed to me so that I can work and have a life. Medicare and Medicaid tell me I only need to get around in my house. That’s all they care about. But $400k helmet for our Air Force that’s rarely ever in a dogfight. No biggie.
@@crimpinurpimpinthat helmet saves the lives of many soldiers potentially while getting you a new wheelchair on the governments dime helps make your life slightly easier. Probably one of the most selfish entitled statements I’ve ever seen.
That Wii NPC turn at the beginning, tells you just how good it’s gonna be 💀
looks like kdb
This almost makes the Apple Vision Pro sound affordable!
Thomas Sowell said it best “When you spend other people’s money, you are not concerned with the price.” It also helps when your buddy owns the civilian company and is probably writing you a check.
Just look at Gavin Newscum’s $20 min wage that he exempted his buddy’s company from
Hard to disagree with Sowell...
He always makes sense.
@@20vtechnikThomas Sowell did not believe this applied to military spending. He advocated for *increasing* military spending at the cost of basic social goods like pensions.
Because Thomas Sowell was generally a "for hire" fake economist who advocated for a world where large swaths of poor Americans were coerced into working for a tiny aristocracy of private warlords.
This was his ideal configuration.
@@mko-aiThomas Sowell advocated for increasing military spending and reducing pensions to pay for it.
this is a certified titanfall moment
now we just have to spend 35billion on an expirimental box with arms and legs (and gun)
dont foorget the jumpsuit @@migueltroxx5534
@@migueltroxx5534”protocol 3: protect the pilot.”
Now we have to wonder if Captain lastimosa and Jack Cooper had the same head shape/mold lol
@@jesuschavez8417hol up
The real question is how many ppl got spinal injury before they figured out they needed to fix the helmet
Defense budget ✅️. Health Care: ❌️
No need for healthcare when you’re invaded by the enemy 🤦🏻♂️
Ok you’ve convinced me, quadruple the defense budget.
But people still complain about taxes.
Noncredibledefense
@@mr.starly2423And why wouldn't they?
Classic smooth brained american
@@ehsanakbari8758classic “all Americans are stupid” believer who can’t take a joke
"This is the 400,000 dollar helm- *drops it*"
Let's be honest here, they gave him a model
@@TheBuddel I was making a joke I knew the one he's holding was fakkee
It's made of reinforced Kevlar, I'm sur it'll be fine
Def said Demo on the side
Let's hope it's not made by a tech company.
Don’t let Apple see this
They should use this to catch the ufos flying around
Who needs health care when you can get your pilots $400k helmets
And before you say "you shouldn't have to pay 200mo!" Well guess what, if we lived in Europe we'd have 40% of our income taken to pay for insurance. I'd much rather spend $2400/year on $160k/year income than only bring home $95k of my $160k income.
Free Healthcare is not free. They just take it in the form of taxes instead of monthly fees.
I actually pay nothing a month-@@tonyvelasquez6776
Yup. Would rather not have “free” healthcare. I’m not poor.
@@tonyvelasquez6776are taxes not taken out of your $169k? 😅
@@tonyvelasquez6776how much you pay for taxes 5%? lmao
Contractors way overcharging the government
That’s why spending 800 billion on military but can’t compete with China because similar helmets in China will cost 5k
And the helmet from China will only work for 30minutes. Theres a reason all their stuff is so cheap, dont be confused they use that same quality for their own people as well.@@machinefannatic99
Did you even watch the video? The helmet isnt just a helmet. It's also a hud and targeting visor.
@@machinefannatic99 chinese helmets and aircraft are generally less sophisticated
@@remoquillojosemiguel1105everybody knows that's overpriced, u can't justify a rolls royce car pricetag for just a freaking whatever helmet 😆
lockheed martin developer: "sir we have a finished state of the art helmet and it only cost $40k
lockheed martin ceo: "shh let me ask the US Dept of Defense if they have budget for $40k
US Department of Defense: "Alright we have $800 billion dollar and we want that state of the art helmet"
lockeed martin ceo: "it will cost you $400k sir
That's why we spend a trillion dollars a year. Defense contractors are wild 😂
“Yo dad that’s a cool helmet! When we going back home?”
“This is our home.”
I'm investing in this comment.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
hehe this is our house I like it you said so.
everyone fighting for their life while this guy is playing war thunder VR
Not only that, but also getting money
Now we just need to install in this on a power armor suit
We are getting closer and closer to having titans
Russian Air Force: Best I can do is a bike helmet with goggles taped on
Good joke, but russian helmet for pilots of Mi-28NM looks as good as this helmet for F-35.
@@BaLaMuTt89 looking as good and being as good quality are not the same. The T-14 looks impressive, but it must also have invisibility because there hasn’t been one seen in 2 years in Ukraine
@@BaLaMuTt89The Russians are incapable of producing electronics and sensors on this level, it's the whole reason their doctrine relies on area denial assets like SAMs. If they were this good Ukraine would have fallen in 2022 NATO support or no NATO support.
You do realise the sukhoi is still considered the best plane and not only that Vietnam farmers using migs shot down 4000 us planes
@@BaLaMuTt89 I bet you the Russian and Chinese versions of this helmet will be as good but cost one tenth of the US price.
The helmet actually costs less now. The cost seems to have decreased to 200K (as of 2017) as production got streamlined and the technology made more common. We can expect the cost to go down even further
who makes it?
Just like F-35s themselves. They also got massively cheaper as economics of scale set in. Forget the bullshit you hear about the 35. Despite some issues, the programme has been a massive and I mean really massive success
Most of the cost is obviously profit. I mean defense industry loves those thick profit margins.
Just like computers. They still haven't hit a ceiling. They been getting smaller faster, cheaper since they've been introduced.
Are there more recent figures than 2017?
Thanks for putting this into perspective. Some of us just see a helmet with some goggles and a tube.
For those wondering, when you put it on you feel like iron man
I'd be happy just running around my garden wearing that helmet
I would like one for my Yaris.
It probably costs 15k to make, but uncle Sam pays 400k
Yup
Actually 400k is probably a reasonable price. Sounds crazy, but imagine how much R&D goes into making something like this for such a niche market. They don't have the advantage of manufacturing millions of these and making money through volume. So to justify the initial investment to design and manufacture them, the cost has to be high.
More like 100k considering R&D involved.
@@youreyesarebleeding1368 you probably also believe the government is here to help, right?
@@youreyesarebleeding1368like those $30,000 dollar trash cans the Ukrainian army bought. I can’t imagine the R+D that went into it 🤯
I thought it’s just looks like that in the movies 😂
The Apple Vision Pro definitely took some inspiration from this
It’s an Apple Vision Pro but actually useful, I mean, you can’t lock on a MiG-29 with an Apple Vision Pro, can’t you
No it stole everything from the microsoft hololens that was made 10 years ago
No?? It's a vr headset we've had them for decades and they've been good since 2014
@@antlionworkerfan2007I think it’s coming in the next couple updates
It's honestly a wonder why Lockheed didn't tap into the VR market, considering they had this technology since the Apache.
How badass do these guys have to feel when getting fitted for these. 😮
Bro has the best job in the Air Force
We’re getting closer and closer to the army being like Spartans from halo… one step at a time.
You know you’re a good pilot when they invest in a $400,000 helmet for you.
$400K to them is like $100. Super inflated defense budget
That 400k is to protect that 80 to 100 million dollar aircraft...
@@dimisegers3095It’s to protect the pilot actually as that matters more than the jet. A skilled pilot is very hard to replace and a jet is much easier. That’s why they tell the pilot to eject instead of allowing them to try to save the plane.
Not to the pilot. To the aircraft. This is a helmet specially designed for the aircraft.
@@ang_10011you meant it can fly itself?
I could have lived another 20 years not worrying about how much this helmet costs
So, you're saying that you're worried now?.. 😂😂 worrying about what exactly?
@@duke1281maybe about what taxes are so high? At least this is an investment into our countries safety and not just being given to another country we somehow "owe" money.
New ejection system is boss too. It ejects the helmet straight off the pilots head in the event of an emergency. 😂
Man tech nowadays is so wild, I remember being a kid and seeing this kinda stuff in cartoons
Imagine showing this to a ww1 pilot
Some site noted that the complete Sopwith Camel cost an inflation adjusted $250 k, with another 100k for the guns and ammo.
Telling the pilot that his leather cap and motorcycle goggles have been replaced with helmet that cost more than the entire plane, armement, and the pilot's salary since he joined the RFC would probably be very painful...
Then tell him that the jet this plugs into costs as much as 320 fully equipped Camels.....
They won't be surprised, this is technology 100 years into the future anyways
“Finally something to cover me from the oils”
Our pilots in the Navy had these things 20 years ago and this is the first time I’m seeing a video about one on youtube and I am subscribed to many military channels. We used to call them Rhino Helmets.. But that is probably because our squadron flew F/A-18 Super Hornets and on the carrier they were always announced as “Rhinos” when they landed and at the time, only our squadrons pilots had the Rhino Helmets. Or being described as having “Rhino Intakes” because they were big square and bulky looking. One of our pilots let me wear his one day and explained that he doesn’t have to get a target inside the target box on the HUD to lock onto it like other jets have. He could simply look at the target and lock on with his helmet and that was it. He didn’t even need to fire it. The WSO in the back seat (Weapons Systems Officer) or “Wizzo” as we called them, could take it from there while the pilot went back to flying the jet. Those helmets make things super easy for the pilot.
Not nearly the same helmet but still very useful
@@Yaboifootchie there’s not one thing in this video that I already didn’t know that helmet did. So they are quite literally the same helmet and they look the same. So tell me, since you have more experience with jets, pilots, the Navy and all that, what’s the difference between the two helmets then? Since me being a Plane Captain who got his name on his squadrons show jet, meaning i was the best of 70 plane captains and there were only 12 jets and I spent literally day in and day out with these things for 5 years during operations Iraqi and enduring freedom, please tell me where im wrong. Since they look and do the SAME THING, they quite literally are the same helmet. Except maybe my pilot’s helmet was tantamount to an iPhone 2 and right now they are on iPhone 15. Ya get me? One of our pilots even mentioned to me he never uses his HUD for locking on anymore because he just does it with his helmet. It fed all sorts of information to him. Including how far away the target is before they are within locking range. And you could even lock on to more than one enemy for simple positioning information. Like if you happen to lock onto three jets flying in front of you before they know you are there or paying attention to you but then do notice you and split up, your helmet will track them so you don’t lose them in the sun and stuff.. Little red and green arrows that show where the jet is if they aren’t in your field of view. I left out allot of things that helmet can do. Including stuff I know that wasn’t in my pilots helmet like that smart glass sun dampening system or whatever I saw on Not What You Think RUclips Chanel. That can dampen the sun if you are trying to escape towards the sun so you don’t blind yourself. So tell me, what is the difference between these two helmets since they seem to be doing the same thing for the pilot. And for future reference, if youre going to comment like you just did, do us a favor and stop being one of these lazy gen Z’ers who only thing and speak in the character limit of friggin twitter. Expound on your comment or risk looking like a momo..
I can’t claim to know more than you but from what I can tell there were some technical upgrades but also some cool new features. They were designed along with the F35 so the technology is completely integrated into the jet itself. They also have improved night vision camera, new liquid-crystal displays, automated alignment and software improvements including being able to show what fellow pilots and their jets see and being able to essentially see “through” the jets bc of all the built in cameras. The new software also synthesizes all the input information in a way that didn’t exist before, you mentioned locking into a few different jets and it would track them so this one detects threats even before the pilot can see them, keeps track of it and shares the information with the other pilots. Anyway I just find them fascinating and apparently now they’re working on AI software for them so the pilots would be able not only to see through F35s but be able to “see” into enemy jets.
@@princessglitterbutt5984 yeah a few jets have helmets like these now. Back when I was in the Navy, every single carrier I was on and every time we did detachments to other bases like Top Gun in Fallon NV or the Kew West Base here in Florida, our pilots were the only ones walking around the flight line with “Rhino” Helmets on. Now even the air force has them, hence the video and why i said I have been into jets and the military air support of the United States since the early 2000s and this is the first time I’m seeing a video explaining them.. Each jet is different and made specifically to do a specific job. We don’t have multiples renditions of the same type of jet that do the same thing so one could deduce that each helmet made for a specific jet is different. But my point was that in 20 something years this is the first time I ever saw a video or another pilot other than a Navy pilot using these things. And one could probably also deduce that straight Fighter or Strike Fighter jets (Air to air dogfighting jets conducting air superiority), as opposed to straight Attack jets (bombing only) or like my F/A -18 Super Hornets which can do both Fighting and Attacking, do not have the Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) pods that can help the pilot see through their own fuselage. I wasn’t saying this was the EXACT SAME helmet. But they are basically performing the same functions, maybe with a few software upgrades but the purpose is still the same. To not have to align a target within the Heads Up Display used for analog manual targeting. Instead you can just look at the target with your helmet no matter where it is, heck it can be beneath you under your jet and your helmet can let you see through it for crying out loud lol, and you can lock onto it like that. And in our jets the pilot didn’t even need to do anything but lock onto it. The WSO or “Wizzo” would take it from there so the pilot can get back to flying the jet. This is very handy in high stress quick decision dogfighting.
@@desertegle40calturning wrenches on legacy hornets and writing a bunch of words doesn’t qualify you on anything pertaining to avi or the f35. Everything you just said proves you don’t know what you’re talking about. Thanks!
One government contract actually worth the money spent on it. That helmet is badass
This is Marvel level stuff here
The TIE fighter pilots from Star Wars also have a free view from the cockpit thanks to cameras and they also have fighter data transmitted to their helmet. Conclusion: we are living in the future.
You mean the past. A long time ago...
Ye i've always thinking that their helmet is something like in the video. Like how the hell you gonna fly with only a 2 by 2 meters window to look through?
About the conclusion, that's what I've been thinking for a while. Except for the spaceships, technology nowadays is reaching highs that make science fiction technology look ordinary or even clunky lol
It's like that scene in Kingsman where they were showing james bond type of over the top gadgets and the guy asked 'what's special about this phone/tablets??' and they replied 'nothing, it's just a regular phone but this technology already caught up with the spy world'
I has this impression looking at it.
It looks like a helmet from Star Wars.
Pilot - "Hey boss, do you know that $400,000 helmet? ... Well I'm taking it home for the weekend to put stickers and air brushed lightening bolts on to it!"
Sure private. Don't forget the glitter glue.
Basically a military apple vision pro… wait a minute…
Iron man went quiet for a bit 😂
I thought he was gonna say this is a $400k jet not helmet😂
If he mentions he fighter cost he'll be banned from RUclips and locked down with Julian Aasange😂😂😂
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The jet is like 60 mil
@@CALAMITY0FHYRULEtry more like 135 million
@@smilingsamurai5590 that's the 22's price tag I thought
1990s anime of mech pilots have come true
And remember kids, when soldiers are sent abroad to fight someone else's war, you can rest assured the real enemy is back at home.
We’re getting closer and closer to an iron man suit every day
I compare it to the elves helmet in Artemis Fowl lol it's mindblowing
Yeah, and at what point do they just replace the actual human?
I got to fly an F-22 once... then i woke up.
Damn, never knew they made the Raiju from GTA in real life 😎
This helmet basically turns you to iron man
I bought a GoPro 12 black today … it’s pretty sick . Waterproof. Has its own mini light attachment. Microphone. So I got that going for me
Dammmmn bub, that's sweet !! 🤙🏻😎🤠
Just imagine how many people in the health care sector that $400k could have served.. 😅
Probably one, because health care costs are also astronomically inflated
healthcare management would eat a large chunk of it lmao
The $4.5 trillion the US spends on healthcare is already too much. More does not need spent
Ye no id rather defend the country instead of buying a communist scam
@@jhiatt1516 they are inflated due to insurance companies working in tandem to insure that both hospitals and themselves are profitable at the expense of the average person.
Some contractors offered some pretty sweet kickbacks 😂
I got to wear one of these while touring the lab where they were developed. Awesome technology!
My opa (passed in 2005) who flew for the RCAF from 1958-1965. No combat and he passed when i was 10. I hope when i die my last hallucination will be me and my opa pulling 9+ Gs just flying the skys. Miss you
*Salutes* may they fly high friend.
❤
No one asked
It must be nuts flying one of those
Whatever the military says it cost divide that by 10
That's a $400,000 smile
A guy I shared a class with in college was an Apache pilot. He told me that he will never ever be upset paying his income taxes because the number of helmets that he had gone through was worth more than a life time of taxes. They are so sophisticated even back then, if they are dropped or slammed hard enough, it ruins the calibration. Its that sensitive. Maybe these new generation have improved on it.
I’ll get one for the wife next time she reverses the car out the garage 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Best coment
Bro I’m shipping u 1😂
She's still gonna crash💀💀
The helmet really costs 100k. They just take the other 300.
Dam that one helmet alone costs more than my $350,000 house!
This is what separates American war fighters from the rest of the world. We value the lives of our men and women in uniform and will shell out astronomical amount of dollars to ensure their tactical advantage on the battlefield, their safety and also sometimes their comfort. If you go in to a situation with a technological advantage over your enemy and are safe and in moderate comfort, you are more likely to perform at 100% motivation rather than 50% for a country that could care less about their men in arms. This is why we live in the finest nation on Earth. In my humble opinion. 🇺🇲
Aight, the spartan helmet is ready, now follows the rest of the suit.
I love how tiny the f-35 is, my god it's like a pigeon with AIM9s
It's called battle penguin for a reason 😁
It costs as much as a few dozen bushings used on basic planes in the Air Force. (Those are like nuts and bolts that you can buy for a few dollars but the Air Force pays $90,000 for a small bag of them).
lol wait till apple says hold
my beer and makes one the same for under 50k
Air force be flexing to the Army with 2 humvees on one pilot's head 🥶
What’s next? An $800k per tire?
shi must be.
Brain dead comment
Oh!! Is not already that price? 🤭🤫
go higher
We really got $400k helmets before public health care 💀
This makes Apple Vision Pro look so traditional
I heard it smells like freedom
imagine a fighter pilot drops it on the ground by mistake 💀
Bro looks like if Coby from Dude Perfect was ginger 💀
What they can't tell us is that this helmet allows for deep dive into an SAO like virtual world where F-35 pilots fight Chinese and Russian hackers on the dark web
Yk those Apache helmets are super cool also
Being able to see the displays and then also have the targeting system and then the gun control is wild
It’s cool in practice and has been around since and before the 2000s but it’s not as effective as using hand controls. It’s just not the greatest idea to have the aiming of your main weapon be controlled with the movement of your head.
@@Austin-cx2xeit does work pretty well in a pinch if you need some suppressing fire whilst flying low.
As long as everything goes as briefed its never used though
The helmet is designed by Elbit Systems. The Israel Air Force pilots had similar advanced HUD helmets made by Elbit for their F-15/16s and the F35 program decided to adopt the design.
Not quite, this helmet was comissioned by the american air force from the american Elbit Systems counterpart(still under the same corporation)
Elbit is a native Israeli company that also operates in the US. @spoperty4940
My dad worked on this helmet 😁
@@spoperty4940buddy you just don’t know isreal owns America 😂
@@ofribarak2005 I'm aware
I got to wear it when it was in development. It's amazing.
It’s in Temu for $29.95 plus shipping
Yeah 400k if you included the cameras on the airplane, but the helmet shouldn't cost more than 10k
I guess the concept of R&D costs escapes you.
BTW they've gone down a lot since they were introduced, and will continue to go down. Just like most other tech does. Economics 101. ✌️
@@amb3cogeven factoring in R&D, there’s no way it costs that much my friend. The corruption with government contracting is no joke. You realize how big our defense budget is right? Far more than it should be.
Stay stupid even with R&D, a helmet that works exactly like AR glasses (those are cheap) and connect them to cameras. It's just classic defence spendings being wasted because friends owns the company, you take a share... If you don't believe it that's your problem @@amb3cog
@@bren.r when you take into calculation just how much processing power the helmets alone have (which the planes have even more of) it makes a lot of sense how much the helmets cost. The US has been working on this tech for decades at this point, with the first versions being a retrofit kit for the older helmets.
You can’t fix stupid
We need Sam to do the KC-10 or the UH-60 next
Youre GIVING SO MUCH INFO to our enemies.
I can already see some dude wearing this for his flight simulator build at home
I’d guess almost all the cost is from the development and R&D. Since there’s only a couple hundred made, there’s less units to spread out the development costs out on.
@spooky.- A couple hundred is actually way off. More than 1000 F-35'S have been manufactured, each one of them having such helmets.
Q: Why does it cost so much?
A: Because the government paid a private contractor for it.
Real world market value price is probably $30,000. 😂
Night vision goggles alone cost 15 thousand dollars. Precise carbon fibre layers in a helmet shape probably takes around 50k, the precise calibration of the hud is probably at least twenty thousand, and everything is military grade, and has been assured to work no matter what.
The cost has also decreased by more than half. If they can stop a nuclear bomb heading towards my city, I would say it’s worth every penny.
@@humbleopionist4366 well, they can't stop a nuclear bomb so they're not worth (?
@@pauloaz496 What part of they do you not understand, do you need me to explain why Americas clear air superiority against any other nation on earth is beneficial in times of war?
It must be such a trip flying one of those things
I thought he was gonna say the plane cost $400K.... I was getting ready to take out a loan and go to pilot school 😂😂
Vtol vr actually gives a great picture of modern air combat and tech
including the looking through the aircraft, and helmet locking functions
So does dcs world in vr mode
@@cfly11wastaken41yeah well not everyone has a gaming computer so
So does war thunder vr sim
DCS and War Thunder have better graphics but are technologically behind. Vtol has a lot of advanced features that the other games don't have. Plus you can fly what's basically an F-35.
@@ThatSpecificIndividual
Its way better in my opinion
Simpler graphics makes understanfing controls and systems easier
It also means it can run on more devices
Recently I asked a gentleman, Recently retired from the USMC, 20 years on carrier decks, arming FA-18s for the gulf War, knows his stuff.
Asked him if we got into a shooting war with ANY other country would we win.
Answer, yes.
Q., how long would it take.
A., not long, they wouldn't even see us coming.
Q., not even our missiles?
A., nope
These guys always say things like that. The problem is, the one saying such things are never in command.
Vietnam farmers shot down 4000 us planes,
You mean like you won against the taliban? oh wait...
@@gordonfrimann246 Vietnam farmers shot down 4000 us jets Google it, this infatuation about how special scrap metal is, is really dumb
@@machinefannatic99 that was 50 yrs ago. Can't say the same 50 yrs later with the latest technologies.
I expected the helmet to dissapear and see “Pilot Helmet Collected”
Wait a minute you’re telling me this whole time pilots have been wearing nods to fly at night? Like a pvs14?
If I ever become a pilot for this jet, not only would I be honored, I know exactly how I'd customize and stylize my helmet. 😅
you got this!
@@jkhsdjkhfjkhh3 I'll try really hard, but I'll be okay if I don't get it. Thanks for the encouragement though! 😁
With a di ck on the side?