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Elbit America’s X-Sight display system gives helicopter pilots a tactical advantage

With a smaller frame and integrated night-vision, the X-Sight system

Elbit America last month demoed their new X-Sight Helmet Mounted Display (HMD) system to customers and partners in Huntsville, Alabama. Designed for military helicopter pilots, the X-Sight system aims to give pilots a tactical advantage by providing them with not only enhanced imaging of their surroundings, but also data that could make all the difference in a combat or stealth situation.

As helicopter pilots work with extremely small margins of error, an HMD is designed to give pilots an extra leg up. The X-Sight, specifically, features a wider field of view than other systems, and includes integrated night vision capabilities. What’s more, is it fits over a standard helmet, which is an advantage over previous bulky HMD systems.

Elbit America claims that the X-Sight system “conducts data fusion from multiple sensors, databases, and networks into a low-latency comprehensive world model that’s displayed onto the HMD visor, providing unprecedented situational awareness.” Touting near-zero latency, the X-Sight system is optimized for tactical, low-altitude operations.

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Real-time activity is displayed in full color and full HD resolution, and multiple image feeds means that there is no need for the pilot to look around the cockpit, but simply remain stationary with their head facing forward.  The X-Sight system is compatible with AH-64E Apache attack helicopter as well as the US Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) platforms.

Matthew Boyer, an Artificial Intelligence Engineering Manager at Elbit America says, “The system can receive data from LiDAR, RADAR, and other sensors aboard a helicopter’s payload…Our goal is to seamlessly fuse these elements to provide as much information as possible to a pilot, while reducing their workload.”

 

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