Status of F-35 – Senate Armed Services Committee Statement [pdf]

Re:Status of F-35 – Senate Armed Services Committee Statemen... by a3n on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:25AM (#11612155)

Those practices might be appropriate for a combat plane.

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Re:Status of F-35 – Senate Armed Services Committee Statemen... by SFJulie on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:27AM (#11612192)

So basically F35 is a plane embedded in a software. Why not have embedded computers in a decent plane? lol.

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Re:Status of F-35 – Senate Armed Services Committee Statemen... by dingaling on Monday May 02, 2016 @12:29PM (#11612869)

> Why not have embedded computers in a decent plane?

Oddly enough, Fairchild Aircraft was formed when Mr Fairchild decided to build a 'decent plane' to carry-around his aerial cameras...

Back to the F-35 it is interesting to contrast how Dassault in France has been slowly expanding the mission scope of its Rafale by adding additional software, without affecting the actual flight-control systems. After 12 years of gradual updates they're also starting to update hardware, such as converting to an SDR instead of traditional tuned radio.

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Re:Status of F-35 – Senate Armed Services Committee Statemen... by emeraldd on Monday May 02, 2016 @12:49PM (#11613074)

> Oddly enough, Fairchild Aircraft was formed when Mr Fairchild decided to build a 'decent plane' to carry-around his aerial cameras...

Ya know, I think he may have been onto something there ...

> The A-10 was designed around the 30 mm GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon that is its primary armament.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunde...

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Re:Status of F-35 – Senate Armed Services Committee Statemen... by engi_nerd on Monday May 02, 2016 @12:07PM (#11612630)

Just about every complex engineering system is now a software project with an associated hardware component. You do not have a "decent plane" without good software.

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