Board Gun JSF does not shoot: software not ready – Automation Guide

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The first Joint Strike Fighters will be operational this year. Well, operational … The board is now working gun yet, because Lockheed Martin is still not gotten the software for firing them to develop

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This was reported by the US website The Daily Beast, which are message based on information from unnamed soldiers in the service of the US Air Force. A spokesman for the US Air Force and Lockheed Martin would not confirm the report.

According to specialists The Daily Beast has consulted, it is a problem of limited scope. JSF – which incidentally, officially called F35 Lightning II – due to its weight, relatively slow acceleration and lack of maneuverability in any case not suitable for air combat. For the Russian Sukhoi Su-30 is the ultra-modern device is not a party, they ask. Moreover – and perhaps why – the F35 enough ammunition for effective use of the board canon. The gun can fire 3,300 times per minute, but can take only ammunition for 180 times.

On the other hand it does mean that the F35 the first few years is not suitable for tactical air support to ground troops, when it is too risky to do that with his other weapons from a distance – such as own and enemy forces close opposing stand, ask the specialists.

Al written 24 million lines of code

The lack of software for a relatively simple function as the firing of the cannon board seems at first sight strange. But if you look at the size of the project, it is somewhat understandable. For the F35 have been written 24 million lines of code. Any addition or change is thus an enormous task. Last year, problems with the software already led to delays in the testing of the device. One of the zegsmannen The Daily Beast does not expect the code to control the onboard cannon, is ready for 2019 – if that date is already feasible.