Aren’t these the planes that can’t be flown in bad weather because they can’t handle a lightning strike?
Sounds like the EA-6B...
All weather aircraft, can’t fly in fog...
“Aren’t these the planes that can’t be flown in bad weather because they can’t handle a lightning strike?”
Software error...
If you want to fly in bad weather they have these things in the US military arsenal called All Weather Aircraft. The F-111 was one of them. Maybe the A6... I’m no expert.
I think space shuttles and general manned spacecraft used the The Intel 8088 microprocessor. Primarily because NASA knew that this particular CPU could withstand High rates of radiation common to spacecraft.
[Wiki] “Introduced on June 1, 1979, the 8088 has an eight-bit external data bus instead of the 16-bit bus of the 8086. The 16-bit registers and the one megabyte address range are unchanged, however. Application: Desktop, Embedded.”
It’s something very similar to why they maintain(d) the F-111 and the A6 in the inventory for so many years because they could withstand the range of variants in weather.
And if the F-35 isn’t hardened against weather... static discharges on the acft hull could quite possibly cause a software issue, or initiate a reboot at a most inconvenient phase of the flight.
Again, I’m no expert on these systems. Just a few thoughts as I read through this thread.