Stability of AESA radar mission software poses greatest risk to F-35 IOC for USAF

摘要

A software glitch that interferes with the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning Ⅱ Joint Strike Fighter's AN/APG-81 AESA radar working in flight poses the greatest potential to delay US Air Force (USAF) plans to declare its jets operationally deployable, a top service official told IHS Jane's on 4 March. Major General Jeffrey Harri-gian, director of the USAF's F-35 integration office at the Pentagon, described the problem as "radar stability - the radar's ability to stay up and running" using the 3i software that the air force intends to use when it declares initial operational capability (IOC) sometime between 1 August and 31 December.