I quote: “It all goes back to “Top Gun.” In the heads-up display on Maverick’s Tomcat, you can see a computer compensate for human aim with precision laser guidance and careful calculations.”
BLOODY FREDDING EXCUSE ME!
ONCE AGAIN, A TALKING MUFFINHEAD HAS NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT!
As an F-4 McDonnell Douglas Phantom radar maintenance assistant shop chief, I will tell you. The ‘heads-up display’ (HUD), was “not to compensate for human aim”, at all. The weapons control system, that tracks and locks onto another aircraft, launches a missle to intercept that aircraft, computes and drops bombs onto ground targets, and acts as an aiming device, using the locked on radar, is an autonomous electronic package. All the information of navigation, and the weapons control system, is relayed to the pilot, through the HUD.
PEON NEWSCASTER!
It appears this author thinks the origination of HUD was the movie. Idiot.
Let’s not let facts get in the way of a good story.