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Re:The department of war just shot the accountants and opted... by trollbridge on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @07:47PM (#45895026)
The F-35 has the equivalent of an 80486 in it because it is so old, and can’t be updated.
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Re:The department of war just shot the accountants and opted... by ethbr1 on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @09:20PM (#45895696)
> can’t be updated

You mean the ICP that's already been updated as part of TR3 to support Block 4 features? https://militaryembedded.com/avionics/computers/f-35-program...

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Re:The department of war just shot the accountants and opted... by trollbridge on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @10:00AM (#45901067)
The contract modification that the American taxpayer paid over $7 billion for that wasn't released until 2023?

For that you got an update to...

>2900 DMIPS, 1MB L2 Cache 512MB DRAM, 256MB Flash 128KB NOVRAM

So you got to upgrade from an 80486 level to something the equivalent of an early-2000s Pentium II.

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Re:The department of war just shot the accountants and opted... by ethbr1 on Friday November 14, 2025 @11:58AM (#45928799)
You can quibble about cost or timeline or specs, but that's a different argument than saying something that's factually incorrect.
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