Originally Posted by LO
When you are citing info that's at least three and a half years old (before Brugal left VSI), concerning what was never more than a tech demo (VSI was deep in the weeds on Gen III at the time and would have been nuts to talk Gen IV for 3F)
Brugal left VSI just three months after BAES had been brought on board to produce a helmet to replace the Gen II HMDS, roughly the point when VSI switched to developing GenIII as their replacement. It was only late the following year that the JPO had enough confidence to cancel the BAES development contract. As you say, VSI were full-on with Gen III at that stage.
KenV,
Given that they were still a long way away from sorting Gen III when Brugal left the company (and I don't know how long before that he shared his toys with you) and that they were still struggling with Gen II untill not long before then, it's hard to imagine how anyone could provide anything that could have been "represented" as Gen IV, no matter who's mate he is.
Sorry about this:
