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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Lockheed-Martin F-35 Software Issues Delay IOC

REALLY??? OMG! What a shock!

Go back with me, if you will, to a post I made nearly 5 years ago on June 6, 2011. Then take a look at the issues discussed in the link below. I still have to quote Paul Strassmann, who way back in the 90's was once quoted to have said:

"Complex software systems do not work. Those few that do are always based upon simple systems... that worked."

Our problem today is that there is no opportunity to crawl. We must go from a clean sheet to agonizingly complex, even before getting airborne. The plane is supposed to come out of the hangar running at full tilt.  Guess what...

http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/2016/03/23/f-35-full-combat-capability-four-months-late/82187648/

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