What was the point of the blast shield?

>>86910553
To protect your eyes from shrapnel in an explosion? Are you retarded?

>>86910611
fuck off, faggot

>>86910645
>obvious use for eye protection
>gets upset when someone calls you out on it
smdh

>>86910683
You heard me.

>>86910709
Well, you can keep getting angry, but I'm still going to keep the tab open for this thread in case it actually gets good, but moreso out of spite.

>be a pilot
>cant see because of dumb shield
>someone draw dicks in your helmet

>>86910752

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>>86910553
Probably stops you going blind in the event of a nuclear explosion.

B-52 crews have a powered set of goggles that are transparent when an electrical current is passing through them, but opaque when disconnected. The aircraft features a system that cuts power to the goggles when it detects nuclear explosions.

>>86910553
OBViously it flips down in the case of the console overheating or exploding

I did look on wookipedia to see what nonsense they had but I couldn't find anything

>>86911710
how do they fly if they cant see

>>86912082
the force