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F-35 engines from United Technologies Corp. are proving so unreliable that U.S. plans to increase production of the fighter jet may be slowed, according to congressional auditors.
Data from flight tests evaluated by the Government Accountability Office show the reliability of engines from the company’s Pratt & Whitney unit is “very poor (less than half of what it should be) and has limited” progress for the F-35, the costliest U.S. weapons system, the watchdog agency said in a report sent to lawmakers this month.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: thebozeian
It's already fixed. They're testing the new datalink software now, but in ground testing it works just fine.
originally posted by: solidshot
F-35 engines from United Technologies Corp. are proving so unreliable that U.S. plans to increase production of the fighter jet may be slowed, according to congressional auditors.
Data from flight tests evaluated by the Government Accountability Office show the reliability of engines from the company’s Pratt & Whitney unit is “very poor (less than half of what it should be) and has limited” progress for the F-35, the costliest U.S. weapons system, the watchdog agency said in a report sent to lawmakers this month.
www.bloomberg.com...
Are these problems along the same lines as the previous one that caught fire? or something new that has popped up?
originally posted by: Bedlam
a reply to: Blackfinger
In essence, you've got agile, broadly capable target designators that can paint every bad guy in the area and then they just dump a #heap of munitions into the air that decide which targets they're going after.
There's some flocking algorithm that keeps them all from picking the same thing.
originally posted by: FlyingFox
en.wikipedia.org...