Re:F-35 radar system has bug that requires hard reboot in fl...
by toomuchtodo on Thursday March 10, 2016 @02:14PM
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Don't think of it as a failure. Think of it as a garbage collection pause at subsonic speeds.
Re:F-35 radar system has bug that requires hard reboot in fl...
by frankydp on Thursday March 10, 2016 @02:26PM
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Spot on.
This article should clarify what the radar reset that they are referring to is. Integer, origin, and timing resets are a function of radar tech, and are not specifically related to something like a system reboot. This would be something like restarting a process due to bad data getting into your process from a sensor and potentially leading to a bad result from a range or trajectory.
A 4-hour MTBF window (even for a subsystem) is terrifying considering modern vehicles like this are likely all fly-by-wire.