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Night vision goggles fitted to the pilot's helmet.
Aircraft That See In The Dark
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Aircraft Eyes That See In All Conditions
The ability to fight through an effective 24-hour day must have been the dream wish of every military commander from Alexander the Great to the western front generals of World War I.
For the tacticians of air warfare, this capability is even more vital, since the environment in which they operate can be as hostile as the enemy himself.
Over the past few years in Britain, a team from the Combat Mission Systems Division of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) flight systems department at Farnborough in southern England, along with pilots of the experimental flight department, has been developing electro-optic sensors for ground attack aircraft on high speed, low level missions. The equipment is dedicated to enhancing target acquisition and weapon aiming and is an aid to flying at night or in poor daylight visibility. It meets a Royal Air Force requirement for a system providing high speed, low level day and night attacks on ground targets.
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