EVERY modern aircraft has that capability, only the way to do it ain’t as fancy as that. I can imagine that pilots will be really amazed (I’d be, too..) but the tactical usefulness is questionable.
Every modern aircraft doesn’t project the imagery to the pilot, like the EODAS system. The tactical usefulness is having increased situational awareness(i.e. the system detects something in the 360×360 FOV, and cues the pilot which way to look)
If we all agree that BVR is the measure of the future combat in the future, then I fail to see the need of being able to look into each sector when I still can’t see any target since they’re all out of range.
While the EODAS’ range will be shorter than the EOTS, I somehow doubt that the ability to detect something that the pilot might not known to be looking for, isn’t going to be a very useful feature(and at night, there’ll be no comparison in the improvement in situational awareness).
On the other hand, I could imagine this feature being extremely useful in close combat. But as you F-35 fanboys say, close-combat will be useless in the future.. :confused: Go figure…
No one says close combat will be useless, not even the EODAS video. They merely point out the advantage that such a system combined with HOBS weapons provides in that realm. If need be, the F-35 can turn and burn too.
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