Side view, same flight

Care to share the date on that PDF/PPT and the rest of the file?

the F35 is the first fighter jet to surpass the CPU performance of

I’m looking forward to what Tech Refresh 2 brings to the F-35.

if it said best then flame inducing indeed, if it says 2nd best its quite modest.

That and there are only 2 5th gen fighters in production and since the F-22 is the only one in Operational status… that makes the F-35 2nd best by default. :p

Before UAI (as in now), every weapon that a fighter uses had to be programmed into the planes software (Blocks in the US, Tranche in Europe, etc). This took years to do and cost LOTS of money.

More to the point of this tangent, it meant that nations could no longer control what kinds of weapons work on the planes they sell as long as those planes have UAI.

Most “standards”, when it comes to weapons, are “interface” (read wiring and connectors) standards, not software. Every plane still needs to be re-coded for every weapon (unless the weapon emulates an existing weapon).

You’d be lucky getting a 2-3x improvement in detection going from Mechanical to AESA.

Again, nowhere near 100’s of times better.

btw, even with that it took a major change in the technology behind the radar which took what 20-30 years.

I’ll even give you 12 years.. tell me one system from 2000 that is over 100x better now.

Is there a historical trend to show a “hundreds of times faster” ability in radar systems every 5-10 years?

Did’t think so.

Making a contract decision based on items not covered in the initial request is what got the 2nd tanker program decision tossed.