Upgrading electronics in A/C is not something that hasnt been done before. But at this point any Raptor restart would require a redesign anyway. It would not be the same A/C.
486, as in like a 486/66 MHZ like my dad had in our home computer from the early nineties until 2000?
When I worked the Support section my last year I. The Air Force we had a piece of engine test equipment that ran on Dos, I was probably one of a handful of people to that was old enough to have worked with it.
Stealthy, unmanned, sophisticated drones is the future of the Air Force and naval aviation.The silicon chip and the spawned derivative technologies has changed the nature of warfare.
Satellites have 386 CPUs, but they work.
In the moment there seem precious few good ideas. "The industrial base, including the assembly line and specialized subcontractors, no longer exists...."
But a clear and present danger is not so clearly seen.
You can thank Prez Obozo for ordering all the tooling and design info for the F22 destroyed. He didn’t want any more to ever be produced.
$150-million for a single fighter plane. Makes one long for the good old days when $25-million bought a battleship.
Is the Pentium upgrade available?
While the F-22 was first put into production in the 1990s, it utilizes 1980s technology.
You fell for a straw-man argument on rebuilding the F-22.
Put up a stupid idea and then spend pages explaining why it is a stupid idea.
It is a stupid idea that no compedent person would propose or argue for.
Why could they not build the air frame and not include modified F35 avionics? The F16 has been in production for years being updated since the 1970s.
Blah blah blah..
Raytheon/DoD mouthpiece.
Yet ANOTHER straw man constructed by this publication to get clicks.
Nobody in the Pentagon or Congress is proposing to restart F-22 production.
Proving once again this publication is not a serious national security offering.
I thought that the 6’th gen NGAD/F-47 - which is scheduled to enter operational service soon - was the F-22 replacement.
Building New F-22 Raptor Fighters Would Be a Giant Mistake
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Like reading your blog.
How about impossible since all th tooling was destroyed.
We watched a few F-22 v. F-15 dog-fights over the water - Raptors kept turning inside on the F-15s and would get behind them. Pretty cool
Then go and upgrade it and call it the B model, re-design and re-make the tooling, and get production rolling again!
A former colleague of mine went to work on that projects. He has been employed about 15 years just to sit at a desk and work on a bolt, a single bolt. That project is a welfare program for government contractors.
486’s? Wow, not even a Pentium inside?
Hopefully at least DX4/100’s, no SX’s.