We all know that fighter jets have become the main combat equipment of the air forces of various countries, especially with the development of science and technology, the performance of fighter jets has become more and more advanced, but I don’t know if you have noticed that it is in the air force Many fighters are equipped with rear-view mirrors. Why?
In fact, many people may have discovered that it is the third-generation or fourth-generation aircraft of all countries in the world. Basically, some rear-view mirrors are installed inside the cockpit. Nowadays, the F18 Super Hornet carrier-based aircraft used by the U.S. Navy has a rear-view mirror installed directly above the pilot and on the left and right sides. The purpose of this is to facilitate the pilot’s better observation when driving the fighter. The situation behind.
After all, although most of the third-generation and fourth-generation aircraft are already very advanced, they even have certain beyond-horizon combat capabilities, but their own battlefield perception capabilities are not very good. Therefore, the installation of rear-view mirrors for these fighters is also convenient for the pilots to observe the rear situation at any time while driving the fighters.
This kind of rear-view mirror has almost been cancelled on the 5th generation aircraft. For example, the J-20 developed by our country has no rear-view mirror installed inside. The reason is that the J-20 itself is equipped with an extremely advanced photoelectric distributed aperture system, and this system can ensure that the pilot of the J-20 fighter can perform 360-degree control of the airspace around the fighter without the radar. Observation of blind spots, and this method is more convenient than installing a rear-view mirror.
