Q-Sight weighs less, costs less
BAE Systems has launched a new helmet-mounted display technology that it says will deliver enhanced “head-up, eyes-out” situational awareness for helicopte

BAE Systems has launched a new helmet-mounted display technology that it says will deliver enhanced “head-up, eyes-out” situational awareness for helicopter pilots, but at a fraction of the cost of more advanced head-up displays now on combat aircraft such as the Eurofighter Typhoon. The Q-Sight family of clip-on displays will also weigh barely four ounces and will avoid center-of-gravity problems associated with other helmet-mounted systems.

Over the past few months, BAE’s defense avionics division has been introducing the new displays to leading helicopter manufacturers, including Boeing, Bell, Sikorsky, AgustaWestland, and Eurocopter, as well as to potential military operators in the U.S. and UK. Operational flight trials have already begun in the U.S. and BAE expects to have Q-Sight in production in the spring of 2009.