November 6, 2006 at 1:13 am
Back in 2002 ST Aero promoted its Falcon ONE upgrade package which features a mission computer developed in-house and an Operational Flight Program written in C++.
The Falcon ONE flight instrument is driven by a Mission Computer (MC), which runs a flight-worthy Operational Flight Program (OFP).
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The OFP software is written in C++, the latest software language. The MC, developed by ST Aerospace, has a revolutionary open architecture that utilises a VME-based Power PC processor system.
However, Lockheed Martin’s press release in 1999 and AdaIC Newsletter in 1996 say US and European F-16s use the Modular Mission Computer (MMC) which runs an OFP written in Ada 83.
So here’s the question – who developed the Falcon ONE’s OFP? Was it ST Aero or Lockheed Martin?
Thanks in advance,
Sunho