Who can design a cockpit that is highly efficient for use in high-intensity air combat?

[caid0ngming]

The F-16 does a good job, but it's still not perfect.

 

[Scott Kenny]

Idea I like came from the Macross Plus anime: the whole side and bottom of the cockpit is a display screen, Iron Vision style.

Then part of the display is an artificial horizon line.

This clip is a little short to really see, but it's what I could find:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtdQOEm2M5Q

 

[sienar]

The Rafale has a good arrangement per pilots who have flown multiple NATO fighters.

 

[apparition13]

John Farley in "A View From the Hover" says the Lavi had the best designed cockpit he flew.

 

[perttime]

Things progress.
(Not sure if there is a proper English phrase for "progress progresses", or "development develops".

I think that now it pretty much boils down to having sensors and connections that give the platform as much data as possible, AND smart processing to give the pilot information that is needed, while holding back things that would be a distraction.

 

[publiusr]

Idea I like came from the Macross Plus anime: the whole side and bottom of the cockpit is a display screen, Iron Vision style.

Then part of the display is an artificial horizon line.

This clip is a little short to really see, but it's what I could find:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtdQOEm2M5Q

True.

Then, too, this might all be in a helmet.

I would keep a stick and a few gauges--but everything thing else be in my helmet.

Theoretically the best cockpit is bare, and perhaps not even in the fighter itself--the cockpit a top radome.

A B-1R with loyal wingmen drivers in the back playing video games as the airframes they control out-turn the meat in the other guy's cockpit.

 

[Foo Fighter]

The real test of AI, when the AI, or whatever you call it, can be the back up system to allow the pilot to fly the aircraft where it needs to be and countermeasures is the job of the AI.

 

[riggerrob]

Rumor has it the latest versions of Merkava main battle tank have a similar sort of helmet-mounted artificial vision system. A system including a dozen (?) external-mounted cameras feed video images to the crew-commander’s helmet-mounted displays, allowing him/her to “see” through solid armor.
A similar system for drivers could eliminate most of the “blue on blue” casualties when tanks accidentally drive over accompanying infantry.

 

[Scott Kenny]

Rumor has it the latest versions of Merkava main battle tank have a similar sort of helmet-mounted artificial vision system. A system including a dozen (?) external-mounted cameras feed video images to the crew-commander’s helmet-mounted displays, allowing him/her to “see” through solid armor.
A similar system for drivers could eliminate most of the “blue on blue” casualties when tanks accidentally drive over accompanying infantry.

"Iron Vision" is the name of the system.

 

[Scott Kenny]

True.

Then, too, this might all be in a helmet.

I would keep a stick and a few gauges--but everything thing else be in my helmet.

Turns out that helmet mounted displays are hard on the eyes, a video wall is better for long missions.