NEW DELHI – Indian defence forces will soon get the state-of-art HelmetMounted Display System (HMDS)/Helmet Pointing System (HPS) Version 02 fortheir pilots flying rotary wing platforms (helicopters).
Navratna Defence Public Sector Unit (PSU) Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)and Israel’s Elbit Systems Limited entered into a Technical CollaborationAgreement (TCA) during the February 20-24 Aero India 2019 in Bengaluru tomanufacture the helmets for the helicopter pilots of the Indian Navy andother armed forces
BEL will no manufacture and integrate the Helmet Mounted Display system(HPS Ver-02) for Indian Naval and other rotary wing platforms of the armedforces under licence from Elbit Systems Limited.
The HMDS will have the latest features of Night Flying with Night VisionGoggles, Colour Day & Night Display, 3D symbology, Head Tracking, Sensors &Weapon Cuing.
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The HMDS/HPS provides the capability to display helicopter’s flight andplatform information, mission data, target information as well asadditional enhanced application capabilities such as Low Visibility Landingand Take-Off, flight within Degraded Visibility Environment, optionalWeapons Management and Synthetic Vision during day and night flying.
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