A recent Pentagon report has revealed a massive list of potentially lethal bugs still facing the jet.
Daily Mail: Problem with your $3.5bn fighter jet? Try turning it off and on again: Now the Air Force reveals troubled F-35's radar has software glitch that forces pilots to restart it constantly
* Jet is undergoing rigorous testing at California's Edwards Air Force Base
* Radar system found to be unstable and crashes constantly
It has so far cost over $3.5bn, and is eight years late.
Hailed as the most expensive weapon in history, the controversial F-35 stealth fighter jet is undergoing rigorous testing at California's Edwards Air Force Base.
Now, it has emerged the jets complex radar system has a problem - it keeps crashing.
The software glitch that interferes with the ability of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter's AN/APG-81 AESA radar working in flight.
This poses the greatest threat to delaying US Air Force (USAF) plans to declare its jets operationally deployable, a top service official told Janes.
Major General Jeffrey Harrigian, director of the air force's F-35 integration office at the Pentagon, described the problem as 'radar stability - the radar's ability to stay up and running'.
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WNU Editor: Apparently this is old news .... The F-35 'Radar Bug' Isn't News And It's The Least Of The Program's Troubles (Foxtrot Alpha/Jalopnik). But there is one little problem with this problem .... how can you give this fighter jet an operational clearance when the radar is not working right .... F-35 Operational Clearance Threatened As Radar Turns Off In-Flight (Defense World).
More News On The F-35's Radar Problems
Radar glitch requires F-35 fighter jet pilots to turn it off and on again -- The Guardian
F-35 Bug Forces Pilots to Turn Radar Off and Back On Again -- Popular Mechanics
F-35 Jet’s Radar Glitch Requires Pilots To Turn It Off And On Again -- Ubergizmo
The F-35 Has Big Radar Problems and the Fix Is Hilarious -- Gizmodo
US Military’s F-35 Fighter Reaches Peak Fail Thanks To Radar Glitch That Forces Pilots To Switch Power Off And On -- IBTimes
Is This Thing On? Pentagon’s Trillion Dollar Warplane’s Radar Doesn’t Work -- Sputnik
2 comments:
At this point you would think Radar was a plug and play package.
Somehow the teachings of DAU are not matching up to reality.
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