An answer (seen in complete PDFs) for 'Mechta' above asking:
So what happens if you have battle damage which stops a control surface working? Will the automatic system adjust for this?
Aircraft Survivability Journal - Spring 2012 Issue Published by the Joint Aircraft Survivability Program Office
JSF FULL UP SYSTEM LEVEL TESTING
F35 Flight Critical Systems Test By Chuck Frankenberger
"...CONCLUSIONS
The FUSL testing conducted on [F-35A first build] AA-1 was very successful meeting all defined test objectives and success criteria. Addressing synergistic effects, the electrical power and flight control systems successfully isolated failures and protected the redundancies built into these systems, allowing continued safe flight. The VSN architecture is robust, providing multiple paths to transfer data. Testing highlighted that fire is a significant threat to flight critical systems. The test team was able to verify that the actual ballistic damage response correlated very well to previous pilot in the loop simulator testing. Over the course of the test program, the LFT team witnessed firsthand the robustness of the F35 flight critical systems, no cheap system kills."
http://www.bahdayton.com/surviac/asn...012_V9_web.pdf [no longer available there]
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http://www.f-16.net/forum/download/file.php?id=15817 (2Mb PDF)
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AIRCRAFT SURVIVABILITY Journal - Spring 2014 Published by the Joint Aircraft Survivability Program Office
F135 PROPULSION SYSTEM LIVE FIRE TEST (LFT) by Charles Frankenberger
"...CONCLUSIONS
Overall, the test results were favorable and in many cases the propulsion system performed better than predicted. Damage to blades and vanes in both the lift fan and main engine did not result in the catastrophic corn-cobbing often seen when gas path components are damaged. The control system is very capable in accommodating damage and providing information to the pilot. The data collected is being used to update assumptions and methodologies used in the vulnerability assessment. These updates will be available for the final F-35 aircraft assessment."
http://jaspo.csd.disa.mil/images/arc...014_spring.pdf (1.53Mb)