Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight

mgh02114 writes "The new US stealth fighter, the F-22 Raptor, was deployed for the first time to Asia earlier this month. On Feb. 11, twelve Raptors flying from Hawaii to Japan were forced to turn back when a software glitch crashed all of the F-22s' on-board computers as they crossed the international date line. The delay in arrival in Japan was previously reported, with rumors of problems with the software. CNN television, however, this morning reported that every fighter completely lost all navigation and communications when they crossed the international date line. They reportedly had to turn around and follow their tankers by visual contact back to Hawaii. According to the CNN story, if they had not been with their tankers, or the weather had been bad, this would have been serious. CNN has not put up anything on their website yet." The Peoples Daily of China reported on Feb. 17 that two Raptors had landed on Okinawa.

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Re:Real redundancy

[gardyloo]

If the radiation is not high enough to kill the pilot at 3 m or so then it is not going to be detectable at 10 km.

      Er... You're saying that because I can see the moon, people who've walked on the moon should have been killed? Or because I can see lights from the next town over, I shouldn't go to the next town over?

      Lethality and detectability are drastically different things. Admittedly, my eyes are tremendously sensitive, whereas the lethality of visible light is *not* high. However, detectors are available which are *very* sensitive to all sorts of radiations, primary, secondary, and of higher orders. Besides which, many radiations (thermal neutrons, for example) undergo more of a diffusion process, which means that the 1/r^2 falloff isn't applicable.

Re:Overflow

[Anonymous Coward]

You so don't know what's going on.
The problem was that there was a bogey drill back in the Pentagon, and the F-22 program's budget got a little too close to the cleaver.
These incidents are a mere reminder of who they daddy.
Nah, that would be unethical; the vendor would never do that.
Forget I said anything.

Re:Cost Efficiency: EuroFighter vs. F-22

[M0b1u5]

The return on investment is HEAVILY in favor of the F-22. There is no aircraft anywhere even close.

That is precisely WHY it's useless. There's no reason to own a nuke when your worst enemy only has a hand grenade.

No - The F22 has already fulfilled its mission nicely: made a lot of folk richer in the states where it was designed and built. THAT was the mission of the F22. Sort of like the mission of the ABMDS is to keep people employed in the states where senators required that pork.