Originally Posted by Courtney Mil
The DAS needs to be good to work out where the Q is.
Funny you say this, the DAS has the nasty tendency to be unable to differ between a flare and an actual incoming missile.
So it goes a bit like this,
1-Enemy shoots heat-seeking missile at F35,
2-DAS sees missile,
3-automatically F-35 dispenses flares,
4-DAS 'sees' flares but computer thinks, some more missiles,
5-F-35 dispenses some more flares,
6-go to 1 and repeat till deplete.
Not an easy thing to fix if you want to stay fully automated with your defense measures in combination with a continuous and system dependant 360° visual (+IR) cover.