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[[File:rsz list 2 66 20101210 085349 427 th 4599.jpg|link=Predator|frame|With the laser sight, the Predator can tell his [[Shoulder Cannon]] ''exactly'' where to fire.]]

A '''Helmet-Mounted Sight''' is a new [[Defictionalization]]. It is essentially a [[HUD|Heads Up Display]] that tells your [[Cool Plane|fighter]]/chopper where you want the [[More Dakka|bullets]] or [[Macross Missile Massacre|missiles]] to go. It has also been upgraded to show what friendly fighters are equipped with to provide [[Stat-O-Vision]]. 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The prototype VF-0 ''[[Transforming Mecha|Valkyrie]]'' in ''[[Macross Zero]]'' does it one better: the helmet tracks the pilot's ''eyeballs'' in order to acquire targets for the mecha's head-mounted cannons. Presumably, this became a standard feature, but this is one of only two times we actually see how it works.
** The other time it appears on screen is a blink and you'll miss it moment with Ozma in [[Macross Frontier]].

== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Deadshot, a [[Batman]] villain and a member of the [[Suicide Squad]] and the [[Secret Six]] has one of these.

== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Predator]]''. The title creature's shoulder cannon moves in synch with its helmet.
** In ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]: Requiem'', the Predator installs a second plasmacaster on the other shoulder, although both are controlled by the same sight.
* ''[[Blue Thunder]]''. The direction of the title helicopter's autocannon is controlled by its pilot's helmet.
* Nicholas Cage's character in ''[[Fire Birds]]'', a rookie Apache pilot, has trouble learning to use one of these, leading to some... ''innovative'' teaching methods on the part of his instructor.
* In ''[[Half Past Dead]]'', [[Steven Seagal]]'s character explains to his friend (played by [[Ja Rule]]) how to operate a crashed helicopter's gun using the helmet. When the firefight breaks out, it comes in handy.

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Airwolf]]'' has one in Stringfellow Hawke's helmet.

== [[Video Games]] ==
* There was a third-party product for the NES which was a headset-mounted zapper gun.
* Among the "aura" options in the costume designer for ''[[City of Heroes]]'' was a variety of targeting lasers emitted from devices worn on the head or face.  If that's too outre, one of the details available for faces (that aren't inside helmets) is a targeting reticule that goes over one eye.
* A VR game like this was at Segaworld in London's Trocadero c. 1999.

== [[Real Life]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100910101835/http://tri.army.mil/LC/CS/csa/apihadss.htm US helicopter gunships since the early 1980s have used the IHADSS system], which can not only aim a laser designator for [[Air-Launched Weapons|the AGM114 laser-guided antitank missile]], but also aim an autocannon in the powered turret under the helicopter's "chin"
* First found on the MiG-29 "Fulcrum" and copied by the West after discovering how effective they were from ex-[[East Germany|GDR]] examples of that plane, particularly in combination with the R-73/AA-11 heat-seeking missile.
** er, the [[wikipedia:Helmet mounted display|Honeywell VTAS system]] entered service with the US Navy in the late 1970s
* The F22 and F35 are/will be equipped with these. Several attack helicopters are equipped with them as well.
** Specifically these aircraft, along with several older U.S. fighters like the F-15, F-16, and F/A-18 will be made compatible with the new Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System, which when combined with the new AIM-9X model of the Sidewinder allows for some absolutely gratuitous stunts involving [[Roboteching]].

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