Kyky päivityksiin on suurissa vaikeuksissa, yritetään ratkoa Harrisin uudella "open-system architecture":lla, aika näyttää onnistuuko.
"The current development process used by the F-35 JPO and Lockheed Martin, which is supposed to provide new capabilities and updates in 6-month increments, is resulting in significant delays, deferrals of planned capabilities, and poor software quality containing deficiencies. For these reasons, the 6-month development and delivery timeline for the C2D2 process has not worked and remains high risk."
"The current C2D2 process has not been able to keep pace with the scheduled additions of new increments of capability. Software changes, intended to introduce new capabilities or fix deficiencies, often introduced stability problems and/or adversely affected other functionality."
Osittain tästä syystä, nykyiset ODIN ja Block 4 aikataulut eivät tule toteutumaan.
The F-35 program continues to face operational testing delays. The Department of Defense has not finished developing the aircraft simulator, which...
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"We also found the program's schedule for its hardware and software modernization effort, known as "Block 4," was not realistic."
"While the Joint Program Office would like to deliver an initial capability for ODIN in September 2021 and to achieve full operational capacity by September 2023, these dates are ambitious, according to multiple DOD officials with whom we spoke."
Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35, the world’s costliest weapons system, may fail to keep pace with Chinese and Russian air defense improvements given its “extraordinary costs” so far, the U.S. House defense policy committee has warned.
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"F-35, the world’s costliest weapons system, may fail to keep pace with Chinese and Russian air defense improvements given its “extraordinary costs” so far,"