Russia is using GoPro video on the helmets of its fighter pilots, while the U.S. Navy and Air Force do not routinely use helmet cameras that are needed to record the increasing number of dangerous aerial encounters.
The Navy delayed for two years before meeting a Pacific Fleet admiral’s request to outfit pilots with helmet-mounted video cameras. The Navy also has not released any video showing some of the recent threatening encounters with Chinese aircraft since the cameras were introduced last year.
The helmet video cameras were requested by Adm. Harry Harris when he was Pacific Fleet commander in 2014, amid concerns that U.S. pilots flying over international waters were unable to record dangerous encounters with Chinese jets that routinely attempt to intimidate U.S. surveillance and other aircraft flying over the East China and South China seas. Adm. Harris is commander of the U.S. Pacific Command.
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