Originally Posted by ORAC
“The DAS has displayed a high false alarm rate for missile detections during ownship and formation flare testing,” the testing report reveals. Basically, the system cannot tell the difference between an enemy missile and one of the F-35’s own hot flares.
This is a very serious and complex problem indeed, which is why some users called for an active MAWS.
25 or so years ago, some super smart mathematicians did a camo pattern study for the grunts, using the smartest computers of the time.
The result was that the 'computer' actually managed to construct the worst pattern, as reported from forward observers, the testers in this case.
This is just to illustrate the complexity of the recognition algorithms issue in general. LANTRIN had serious issues in Bosnia and now JSF has 5 of them pointing more or less down.
False alarm rate is bound to be astronomic if you want sensitivity.
In other news,
2015 budget preview ? Army-Guard fight gets ugly ? OSD turns down Navy request to take a ?break? from F-35 - POLITICO Morning Defense - POLITICO.com
Rumor has it...USN wants out?