The $400,000 helmet for the F-35 Lightning 😱

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 😭

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!!!!!

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

😂😂😂

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.

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

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!

@@ceezb5629 like you know the budget of other countries, or a real budget of your own country for that matter

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?

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.

looks like kdb

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.

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

No need for healthcare when you’re invaded by the enemy 🤦🏻‍♂️

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

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.

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

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 😆

I'm investing in this comment.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

hehe this is our house I like it you said so.

Not only that, but also getting money

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.

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?

I would like one for my Yaris.

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 🤯

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.

$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?

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.

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”

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 KZhead 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!

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.

Sure private. Don't forget the glitter glue.

If he mentions he fighter cost he'll be banned from KZhead and locked down with Julian Aasange😂😂😂

😂

The jet is like 60 mil

​@@CALAMITY0FHYRULEtry more like 135 million

@@smilingsamurai5590 that's the 22's price tag I thought

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?

Dammmmn bub, that's sweet !! 🤙🏻😎🤠

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.

*Salutes* may they fly high friend.

❤

No one asked

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Bro I’m shipping u 1😂

She's still gonna crash💀💀

It's called battle penguin for a reason 😁

shi must be.

Brain dead comment

Oh!! Is not already that price? 🤭🤫

go higher

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

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 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

@spooky.- A couple hundred is actually way off. More than 1000 F-35'S have been manufactured, each one of them having such helmets.

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?

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

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.

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?