 I'm here with Bob Rubino, who's the director of the F-35 program here in Washington, DC. Now, sir, as I understand, you're a former pilot yourself. I flew F-18s in the Navy a long time ago. Well, something they probably didn't have back in your day is this piece of equipment right here. Can you tell me what we're looking at? This helmet isn't anything close to what I ever flew it. It is cool. This thing has the ability to take all of the world around it and put it on the pilot's visor, and that gives the pilot the ability to look through the aircraft. Sir, that sounds awesome. Do you mind if I try it on? All yours. All right. So now you have the real helmet that pilots are flying today on the F-35, and you can see what it looks like and what they see. You have real footage of the world around you in the infrared spectrum that gives you the ability to turn night into day. And if I were to look down, I can basically see right through the airplane as if it's kind of like X-ray vision. That's exactly right. All right, sir. If you don't mind, I'd like to go over to the F-35 demonstrator and give that a try. Let's go do it and show everybody how easy this airplane is to fly. All right. All right, sir. So here we are inside the demonstrator. What can you tell me about the screen? Well, so welcome to the most advanced cockpit ever designed for a fighter aircraft. And you can see this is a little bit different probably than other fighter aircraft that you've seen before. You have two touch screens. What I like to say, they're almost like two iPads that you have with you here. The other neat thing about this cockpit is its voice activated, so you almost have like a Siri working for you. Well, what exactly are we looking at here on this screen? It looks like a tower on the ground. Your job is to take out the control power of the enemy airfield. As you can see, it's shown up as a target here. All right, well, I'm ready to put some warheads on four heads right now, sir. Well, I think it says in range, and I like your mentality. So feel free to push the pickle button. You'll see the internal weapon bay door open up. There goes the doors. Door is open. Bombs away. Feel free to drop a second one if you really like to. There's the first bomb hitting. Impact, well done. As you're coming off the target, the guys you just bombed, there were some guys that did survive and are now radioed to the fighter aircraft that were in the area. That there's somebody out here, so they're starting to look for you. And there's a couple of bad guy airplanes that you need to go take out. Now, the beauty about the F-35 that the Marine Corps is going to love, it's just going to give you the ability of having what we like to call first look, first shot, and first kill. That's what stealth brings to the pilot. All right, sir. Well, it looks like mission complete. So thank you for showing me the Corps' newest aviation technology. It's lethal. It's survivable. You're able to execute the mission and come back and land on the L-class carrier in a very simple and easy way. Well done. The F-35's advanced aviation technology and stealth capabilities make it the best fighter jet in the sky. Thanks for watching, guys. We'll see you on the next episode of With the Gear.