Reader Lisandro writes: The F-35 Fighter jet can’t seem to catch a break. An advanced AN/APG-81 AESA F35 radar system has been found riddled with a software bug that causes it to degrade and stop working. The solution? Rebooting the system while in the air. Major General Jeffrey Harrigian, director of the Air Force’s F-35 integration office at the Pentagon, was quoted as saying “radar stability – the radar’s ability to stay up and running. What would happen is they’d get a signal that says either a radar degrade or a radar fail – “something that would force us to restart the radar.” The issue was spotted in late 2015, and thankfully, it was caught during the testing period. The software version “3i” is affected. An update aimed to resolve the bug is expected to be delivered to the US Air Force by the end of March. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Software Bug in F-35 Radar Causes Mid-Flight System Reboot
