AvP: Head Mounted Sight

Name: Head Mounted Sight
Model: United States Colonial Marine Corps Head Mounted Sight
Type: Fire Control System
Fire Control: 2D

Description: The Head Mounted sight was one of the 4 major components of the M56 Smartgun, the other being the M56 combat harness, stabilized articulation arm and the gun itself. The right side of the band of the HMS incorporated a tactical camera, which could transmit video to one of the monitors in an M577 Armored Personnel Carrier, and a pose-able eyepiece with screen, while the left side of the band featured a boom microphone.

When the infrared tracker mounted above the M56 Smartgun's barrel detects a target, it will flash a red Moving Target Indicator (MTI) light in the headset's eyepiece. A small video screen beneath the MTI light relays images from the headset's tactical camera, and when the camera is pointed at the gun's target, the tracking system will overlay a set of cross-hairs, in the form of a lighted box or rectangle, onto the screen over the target's center of mass. At the same time, the articulation arm self-steers the gun to aim at the target, and, as soon as it has done so, a target lock circle lights on the screen to indicate that the target was bore-sighted. In the case of multiple targets or infrared false-target decoys appearing in the sight, the operator can simply steer the lighted box to bracket whichever target they actually wish to engage.

To use the HMS, it must be plugged it into the tracking and comms system in the M56 combat harness.

Source:

• Xenopedia: Head Mounted Sight
• thedemonapostle