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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday March 24 2016, @08:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the flushing-your-tax-dollars dept.

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II multirole fighter plane has numerous software and hardware flaws. So many, in fact, that it won't be ready to deploy before 2019:

The F-35 multirole fighter won't be close to ready before 2019, the US House Armed Services Committee was told on Wednesday. The aircraft, which is supposed to reinvigorate the American military's air power, is suffering numerous problems, largely down to flaws in the F-35's operating system. These include straightforward code crashes, having to reboot the radar every four hours, and serious security holes in the code.

Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon's director of operational test and evaluation, reported that the latest F-35 operating system has 931 open, documented deficiencies, 158 of which are Category 1 – classified as those that could cause death, severe injury, or severe illness. "The limited and incomplete F-35 cybersecurity testing accomplished to date has nonetheless revealed deficiencies that cannot be ignored," Gilmore said in his testimony [PDF]. "Cybersecurity testing on the next increment of ALIS [Autonomic Logistics Information System] – version 2.0.2 – is planned for this fall, but may need to be delayed because the program may not be able to resolve some key deficiencies and complete content development and fielding as scheduled."

He reported that around 60 per cent of aircraft used for testing were grounded due to software problems. He cited one four-aircraft exercise that had to be cancelled after two of the four aircraft aborted "due to avionics stability problems during startup."


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Thursday March 24 2016, @01:13PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday March 24 2016, @01:13PM (#322511) Journal

    (Note: this comment was originally posted to the wrong article)

    Missing links:

    For next time, download and run my extension from sig, use the "Quote This" button on the post (seen if comment is displayed in full initially), then copy and paste, and remove the blockquote.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @01:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @01:30AM (#322728)

    Another something that can do that (including other sites) is SeaMonkey Navigator, the browser from the SeaMonkey suite.

    Mark the text, right-click, and select View Selection Source.
    A small[1] window will pop up with the good stuff.

    [1] I keep mine in the non-maximized state.
    It remembers the state from the previous time that window was closed.

    As SeaMonkey also includes an HTML Editor, alternately, you can drag & drop the highlighted text into that and click Source (Code View), down in the corner.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday March 25 2016, @01:36AM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday March 25 2016, @01:36AM (#322733) Journal

      The selection source will include the redundant [domain.com], which could be tedious to remove.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @02:03AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @02:03AM (#322736)

        Did I forget to mention that I also have NukeAnything Enhanced installed.
        Mark pretty much anything and tell it "be gone".

        Tedious? That could be.
        Again, SeaMonkey's thingie works on -all- sites.

        -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]