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Wonder what the software is...
It could explain why it kept flying for a while after the pilot bailed out...
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“Soon after the incident there were stories around about the software that runs the F35. The OS is shared with other mil aircraft and Airbus. Claims that it was open to vulnerabilities have been around for a while, they said.”
I work with a very smart guy who worked on the F-35 back in the development/testing period. All software driven. If everything isn’t exactly right, you couldn’t even fire it up.
Don’t know if they’ve changed that, but as long as it’s software driven, it’s a disaster or series of disasters waiting to happen. Especially if it has Chinese chips or it “talks” with other F-35s, which means it’s hackable. I can’t imagine that it’s not also susceptible to EMP - ground-based (aimed EMP weapon), nuke-based, sun-based, or even lightning-based.
A hazard for all fly-by-wire, although they are hardened against lightning lest you be unable to fly in most of the US during the summer.