Posted on 04/22/2016 12:11:32 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been hailed as the 'most expensive weapon in history.'But despite a price tag of $400 billion for 2,457 planes, the fifth-generation fighter has been plagued with issues.
Now, a new report says problems with its logistics software system could ground the entire fleet.
The issue is with what the Department of Defense officials call the 'brains' of plane, also known as the Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS).
A Government Accountability Office report says a failure 'could take the entire fleet offline' because there is no backup system.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Written by Indians on Chinese systems. You get what you pay for.
My feelings exactly. I’ve read a lot about the new Saab; some people think it would make more sense to license it here.
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A couple of weeks ago there was an article here on Free Republic about how they were teaching dogs to fly.
Maybe we could get some Service Dogs to take the computer’s place.
“Woof! Woof!”
“What is it girl? Did Timmy fall down the well again?”
“Bark! Bark!”
“Oh, we’re almost out of fuel.”
F-35 is grossly over cost and provides the taxpayer with limited value.
The 25mm guns work pretty good.
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It’s not a ‘bug’, it’s a feature!...................
Off the top of my head, a centralized computer logistical system would be a non-starter for a warplane.
Take one computer system down and you ground an entire fleet?
Give me a break, who’s idea was this?
Not so much. The F-22 cannot replace the F-35 in either the Navy or Marine role, and it cannot fully replace the F-35 in the ground attack role.
Everybody seems to have forgotten how troubled the F-22 program was and still is. The F-22 doesn't even have a helmet mounted cueing system. It is a fantastic Air Show aircraft, however.
There are still a few people who believe that man can write a computer program so perfect that it qualifies as human (artificial) intelligence.
The real brain problem was in the designers. We should have built hunfreds more F22’s.
The Chaparral and Vulcan platoons that I commanded as an Air Defense Artillery officer were deactivated at least 15 years ago. The human body isn't meant to withstand 8G maneuvers that modern fighters are capable of.
Same people who wanted us to shift to the one-size-fits-all F-35 to begin with - China and Russia.
What happens when the comm links get jammed? How much satellite bandwidth do you think we have?
I remember Timmy. He was the most accident-prone person on Lassie, except for Gramps, who was always falling down wells, mine shafts, and holes when he wasn’t breaking-down in his truck near a hungry mountain lion or escaped convict. The later years... Timmy now works driving a dynamite truck through mountain passes.
“The F-22 cannot replace the F-35 in either the Navy or Marine role, ...”
True, but the F-22 is an air superiority fighter, and there is nothing in the sky that is better in that role. It also has RC-135/AWACS capabilities that are not widely known.
It's an argument that needs to be had...just my opinion, of course.
160 million a pop, and it cant out run, out turn, out accelerate, out range, or outgun a Sukhoi, and F-15, or an F-16.
Its a national embarrassment.
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