The F-35 Gen III Helmet Mounted Display System’s next generation interface provides pilots with intuitive access to vast quantities of flight, tactical, and sensor information for advanced situational awareness, precision and safety.

The F-35 Gen III Helmet Mounted Display System (HMDS) provides a next-generation user interface that integrates the pilot more tightly than ever into the aircraft’s avionics, with more than 10,000 flight hours of operational use.

The F-35 Helmet Mounted Display (HMD), supplied by RCEVS ‒ a joint venture between Elbit Systems and Rockwell Collins ‒ provides critical flight information to the pilot throughout the entire mission.

Jun 15, 2022 · The Collins Aerospace F-35 Helmet Mounted Display System (HMDS) was designed to realize and exploit a true pilot-to-machine union. “The connection of the HMD to the aircraft is unique for each pilot… to accommodate torso …

Aug 5, 2021 · Designed to work with the F-35 Lightning II, the custom-fitted helmet serves to increase pilot responsiveness through enhanced situational awareness. Real-time imagery from the aircraft’s six exterior cameras is streamed onto the helmet’s display providing the pilot a view that would otherwise be obscured.

Aug 22, 2024 · Collins Aerospace explores how the HMD head scanning process has been modernized as it prepares for its 3,000 HMD fitting for F-35 pilots.

The F-35 Gen III Helmet Mounted Display System gives pilots the information they need at the speed of flight. Equipped with a sensor package integrated into the skin of each F-35 Lightning, each HMDS allows pilots to “see through the plane”, providing a 360˚ view.

In lieu of a physical Head-up Display (HUD), the F-35 uses a Helmet-mounted Display (HMD). The F-35 is the first modern fighter to use an HMD to the exclusion of a HUD. The HMD projects two identical images onto the visor, one for each eye, focused at infinity.

Collins Aerospace F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) helmet-mounted display system (HMDS) provides the most capable situational awareness with intuitive access to tactical, flight and sensor information.

Feb 26, 2024 · The F-35 Gen III HMDS is the world's most advanced helmet-mounted display system. Its next-generation user interface serves as a pilot's primary display system, providing them with intuitive access to vital flight, tactical and sensor information day or night.