Not surprising, I recall an article from a few years back where the U.S. Navy was having a 30% premature failure rate in the chips used in their radar systems. The culprit was the chips being made in China because they were 1/10 the price of what Japan charged for them even though the Japanese chips were much more reliable by far. Navy procurement thought it better to change out chips often and at irregular intervals than using chips that met standards.
Our three operational squadrons of F-35s (we have 78 of them) at Hill AFB have not flown for a few days. If the balloon went up, however, they'd all go.
CAD issues are nothing knew. It has happened at one time or another to practically every ejection seat operated aircraft. Regardless, somebody let John Burns know, so he can quickly do a google or Quora search and impress us with his cut and paste prowess.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
Yup. Martin-Baker will get a handle on this quickly. Not a new issue.
BTW, a coronal ejection (note the tie-in) from the Sun may cause issues today with GPS and other satellites. I bet there are some here who can turn even that into some kind of conspiracy theory. Connecting the sun spots, perhaps.
they probably hacked the software.... not that we should send anything like that to protect hag pelosi after Paul made all of that profit off of inside information...
-OMotS
"If memory serves fails me..." Quote: ( unnamed) "been prtty deep in the cooler todaay "
Television and radio are most effective when people question little and think even less.
