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Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets'
schwit1 writes with this excerpt from The Daily Beast: America's $400 billion, top-of-the-line aircraft can't see the battlefield all that well. Which means it's actually worse than its predecessors at fighting today's wars. .... The problem stems from the fact that the technology found on one of the stealth fighter's primary air-to-ground sensors—its nose-mounted Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS)—is more than a decade old and hopelessly obsolete. The EOTS, which is similar in concept to a large high-resolution infrared and television camera, is used to visually identify and monitor ground targets. The system can also mark targets for laser-guided bombs. ... Older jets currently in service with the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps can carry the latest generation of sensor pods, which are far more advanced than the EOTS sensor carried by the F-35. ... The end result is that when the F-35 finally becomes operational after its myriad technical problems, cost overruns, and massive delays, in some ways it will be less capable than current fighters in the Pentagon's inventory.
Actually, if that were the case, the predecessors wouldn't be as capable. Sorry, but it's bullshit assholes like yourself that're the problem here. Seriously. You're the cause for the rules of engagement we see people getting killed. You're the cause for the camels (horse designed by committee) that we see here.
It's gravely disappointing to see that you have a 3 with no qualifiers on moderation- the statement's bullshit. But then, this *IS* /. which has been increasingly not been thinking and more reactively feeling to every fucking thing that comes down the pike. Hardly what it used to be when it was Chips and Dips or the first days of this place. Geeks are fucking supposed to be intelligent and thinking beings, not fucking idiots.