Lockheed's F-22 Raptor Gets Zapped by International Date Line

DailyTech LLC ^ | February 26, 2007 | Brandon Hill

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±190°????

[null and void]

LOL! Like its never happened to us...

[Tallguy]

It is very hard to understand how this could get out of the house.

That's the way it always seems with the benefit of hindsight. As was already mentioned, if they cut the testing requirements...

[2111USMC]

LOL!

[tophat9000]

Sorry this story sounds like total bullshit...

[HardStarboard]

>>>...follow up with his reaction and insight after your next breakfast .... <<<

Done - probably by Friday.

[Desron13]

"That was in Washington State, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge...

I stand corrected Schwaeky. Thanks.

[ReignOfError]

Uh... this sounds like an urban legend to me. The dateline appears on maps, not in the air.

If the onboard software uses GPS to calculate local time, that could have a ripple effect. It does seem odd, though, that the subsystem displaying local time -- which is a luxury, not a necessity, as Zulu time works fine -- would be tied to the other code intimately enough to bring critical systems down.

[MarkL]

So is the change in start and end dates for DST going to ground the entire fleet?

Seriesly, congress meddling around in things like this are going to be HUGELY expensive...

We've got nearly 200 Windows servers (and one Novell server - that one's going to be trivial to fix) and some 2500 workstations. The servers will be easy, as will about 200 of the workstations. Being in an AD domain, using group policies will take care of it. But the rest of the workstations are at remote sites, and for security reasons are NOT members of the domains... So someone's going to have to run a regedit batch file or TZEDIT.EXE on every one of them! That works out to a whole lot of "No Fun!"

Mark

[Steve Van Doorn]

Question: If the enemy was able to knock out all operating satellites in the area of operations how well would the F22 hold up?

[ReignOfError]

Being in an AD domain, using group policies will take care of it.

Certainly a lot easier than being in a BC domain. Just try making that switchover with only stone or bronze tools!

[Sprite518]

They must have some Microsoft software on the Raptor....

[ReignOfError]

Question: If the enemy was able to knock out all operating satellites in the area of operations how well would the F22 hold up?

If we were fighting an enemy who could knock out all the satellites serving the area. we'd be in pretty deep trouble on a lot of levels. But with, or maybe even without, nearby carrier or AWACS control and coordination, the F-22 can still outfly anything else in the air by a wide margin.

October before last, I went to the Air and Space Museum's new annex at Dulles for the first time. While there, I picked a copy of the museum's magazine. One of the articles was about the first F-22 squadron, which was thrilled that there would soon be a second F-22 squadron it could hold exercises with -- picking off other planes was beginning to bore them.

[Beckwith]

Get a new job. I worked with that company (those companies) for years and they were always first class.

[driftdiver]

"'Yep, complete regression testing is an impossibility with systems of any complexity."

Thats not what I said. I said that complex systems frequently have bugs that find their way thru the process.

But I suppose all your code is perfect as written.

[driftdiver]

"They must have some Microsoft software on the Raptor"

Probably, if it were mac it would only look pretty and throw snide comments about.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Definitely, defintely ask both of them.

Approach this story from the "I heard about this weird urban legend on the internet ...."

They'll either immediately confirm it as hoax (we hope) or will start off on a series of tales (er, sea stories) that will really make you scared.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Would make it "fun" to have a combat air patrol/dogfight over the Baring (-1, sp) Strait.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Wasn't this the same company that didn't know the difference between metric and British units of measure?


Nah.

That was a NASA/JPL (between the labs) problem.

[sphinx]

The Raptor-led "Blue Air" team was able to rack up an impressive 241-to-2 kill ratio during the exercise against the "Red Air" threat

In a real war the MSM would still score this a defeat.