Identification Friend or Foe
helmet-mounted overt/covert marking device
Simple, Secure, Safe
Switches are designed for positive operation by a gloved-hand, in the blind. Mode selection switch design options provide operational flexibility or strong security between overt and covert operating modes.
Field Reprogramming
Color, flash rate, and light intensity can be reprogrammed with a wireless handheld device (PIM). A default feature returns the unit back to original factory settings.
Operating Extremes
HEL-STAR F2® is shock and vibration-resistant, dustproof, and open sea waterproof to 130 fsw (laboratory 300+ feet).
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HEL‐STAR F²® combines the helmet‐mounted, multi‐function overt/covert personnel marking functions of the HEL-STAR 6® with advanced Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) capabilities into a single unit.
Developed in close coordination with SOF users, HEL‐STAR F²® provides active IFF interrogation acquisition, response, and alert capabilities when interrogated by specified military targeting/illuminator lasers.
The battlefield is an ever-changing platform with many moving pieces. While elements maneuver through the fight, the HEL-STAR F²® response helps ensure that others can identify you as Friendly during high-risk periods. When interrogated by specified military lasers, HEL-STAR F² interprets the signal and alerts against friendly fire.
HEL‐STAR F²® provides more than a full hemisphere of line‐of‐sight sensitivity to incoming laser interrogations and has been verified in formal ground testing in excess of 800 meters.
HEL‐STAR F²® includes the four marking functions of the HEL-STAR 6® with two separate operating modes (e.g. overt and covert). User-defined functions are available in White, Green, Blue, Red, and IR. The user can select custom combinations of color/emissions, steady or flashing operation, and various intensity levels.
The ability to wirelessly re-program any or all of the four marker functions in the field is available with the optional Programming Interface Module or PIM.
HEL‐STAR F²® shares the same footprint as HEL-STAR 6® and uses the same HEL-STAR Attach Patch.
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HEL‐STAR F²® is a supplemental device intended to identify and confirm a Friendly combatant. It is not as a substitute for standing rules of engagement, and should not be used as the sole determinant for the engagement of a combatant that is non-responsive to laser interrogation.
U.S. PATENTS 9,144,261; 9,175,837; 9,175,838; 9,341,714, 9476982, 9,746,561 and patent pending