The Fisherman Who Never Catches Fish-Chapter 342 - 210: Pluck This White Eagle Bald! (Seeking Subscriptions)

Fang Hao fished up the ejection seat of the fighter jet, once again causing quite a stir.

The livestream room was exceptionally lively.

A group of viewers were teasing Fang Hao about fishing up a corpse.

Nicknames like "Bone-fishing Immortal," "White Bone Great Saint," and "White Bone Immortal" started to proliferate; but most importantly, his catching a corpse... this time he really couldn’t clear his name.

He had fully proven his ability to fish up corpses.

It was a capability that couldn’t be ignored even if one tried.

Fang Hao was completely numb to it.

He would never have imagined that he could fish up an ejection seat and even find a pilot’s skeletal remains on it.

It seemed that this luck divination was unreliable after all.

Despite not having bad luck, he still ended up fishing up a corpse.

Sigh... he could only let out a deep sigh in his heart.

"We’re preparing to send someone down to take a look, to see if we can find the flight helmet,"

Captain Yu told Fang Hao.

In the F22 fighter jets, what caught people’s attention, and was fairly valuable, was the pilot’s helmet.

After all, in fifth-generation fighters, the pilot’s helmet was quite important.

A fifth-generation fighter’s pilot helmet was worth several hundred thousand dollars.

And just so, the pilot’s helmet of the F22 had just undergone an upgrade in the past two years and still had significant research value.

Previously, due to its avionics system being overly complex, the F22 was never able to align the helmet sighting system with the fire control system. Therefore, after it entered service, it was never equipped with a helmet sighting device.

In this aspect, it was even behind the F15 and F16 fighters, let alone the F35.

The principle of the helmet sighting device was relatively simple; it was a sighting device integrated with the pilot’s helmet, which sensed the pilot’s head movements via a head position sensor. The display of the sighting device tracked the target based on what the pilot was looking at, the computer converted the target’s position into aiming instructions, and finally, the missiles, photoelectric search devices, radars, or autocannons continually tracked the target.

A helmet sighting device could greatly increase the speed at which the aircraft captured targets, and it allowed air-to-air missiles to perform off-axis attacks beyond the radar’s search sector, giving the aircraft a major advantage in close-range dogfights.

As the first service-ready fifth-generation fighter, the F22 had optimized radar stealth to ensure absolute stealth performance at its inception. To prevent electromagnetic signals from being captured, it also processed its avionics architecture in a complex manner. The F22’s avionics system utilized centralized data processing; all sensors were only responsible for data conversion, with all raw data analyzed and computed by computers. The F22’s avionics system only supported direct data transmission between similar aircraft, it couldn’t even exchange data with White Eagle’s early-warning aircraft through data links.

This led to a hidden issue in the F22’s avionics upgrades over the years.

It took White Eagle over a decade to solve the helmet issue.

They developed a helmet sighting system called "Scorpion," which completed the upgrade and barely enabled the F22 to perform significant off-axis attacks.

However, overall, the F22’s pilot helmet was still slightly behind the times.

It was much inferior to our Sword 20’s helmet.

Our Sword 20 is currently equipped with a "Helmet Display System (HMDS)", which not only has missile guidance capabilities but also displays various aircraft data directly on the helmet’s small screen, and in combination with a Distributed Aperture System, it allows the pilot to see through the aircraft, providing the best field of view.

It’s safe to say that in terms of information acquisition speed and field of view, the F22 is far behind the Sword 20, lagging by more than a dozen times, or even more.

But this doesn’t mean the F22’s pilot helmet has no value; after all, it’s a helmet that White Eagle just upgraded and still has high research value.

We can criticize White Eagle, but we can’t say it lacks merit.

They naturally have their unique aspects, even if it is a fighter jet from decades ago.

As rivals for decades, both sides are constantly studying each other’s technologies.

Captain Yu arranged for divers to go and search, hoping to find the flight helmet underwater.

"This helmet is probably lost."

"For sure, it’s been so long, who knows where the currents have taken it."

Almost no one believed the helmet could still be found.

Forget something as small as a helmet; even something ten times larger might not be found under the sea.

Captain Yu was also just trying his luck.

Unexpectedly, they really found the pilot’s helmet, but it still contained a skullcap.

"..."

Seeing this skullcap, people didn’t know whether to cry or laugh.

But, it was, after all, retrieving part of the pilot’s remains.

As for the other parts, they were truly difficult to find.

"The helmet was found stuck between two rocks on the seabed, it was discovered not long after we went down,"

said the person who found it underwater.

It was also a matter of luck.

The helmet was found, and essentially, all parts of the plane wreckage were found.

This time, they had truly found all the wreckage of the F22.

A genuinely complete aircraft.

Seeing this helmet made White Eagle even more uneasy.

This helmet was the Scorpion helmet that they had just upgraded.