The Pentagon says F-35s received no new combat upgrades last year, and that attempts to replace old software have stalled.
The Pentagon says F-35s received no new combat upgrades last year, and that attempts to replace old software have stalled.You know how it goes when you can’t upgrade to the latest operating system. Most of your apps work, but you start running into frustrating compatibility issues, and then over time your gadget becomes glitchy and borderline unusable.
It’s annoying enough when this happens to your $1,100 phone, but it must be downright irksome when the gadget in question is anThe pursuit of fully updated software for F-35 fighter jets has petered out, according to an as-yet unpublished report from the Pentagonmakes clear, related issues have been plaguing the Pentagon and F-35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin for some time. F-35s with the Technology Refresh 2 hardware and software system were theoretically in need of an update to the new Technology Refresh 3 system which would have provided “20 to 25 times more computing power, plus more memory and a new panoramic cockpit display.”unless they arrived with functioning software. “Although we cannot provide the metrics involved due to security concerns, at a minimum TR-3 must meet TR-2 equivalency before it can be accepted for operational use,” Russ Goemaere, the Pentagon’s F-35 program spokesman said at the time., Lockheed Martin started delivering TR-3 enabled F-35s in July of that year. That statement touted compatibility with the Block 4 system, which adds “increased missile-carriage capacity, added advanced non-kinetic electronic warfare capabilities and improved target recognition,“ But according to the new Pentagon document Bloomberg just reviewed, the F-35 no additional combat capabilities were delivered in 2025. The new report says TR-3 “was predominately unusable” for most of 2025, because of “stability problems, shortfalls in capability and ongoing discovery of deficiencies.” It should be noted that the report, in Bloomberg’s phrasing, refers to a “software version that hadn’t fully been tested.”that expenses were “out of control” and that he was considering cutting spending to the program after his inauguration. He actually did eventuallyJerusalem Post has claimed that U.S. forces have at least used one to shoot down a drone in the past week4:45 pmThere Was Just an Unusually Unsettling Pentagon-Related Resignation at OpenAIMatt NovakBuying an F-35 is a lot like buying a Tesla. Buyers are locked into an ecosystem with complicated software that’s required to operate the vehicle.
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