Originally Posted by
ORAC
AW&ST:
U.S. Will Keep Locks On JSF Software Updates
Foreign air forces using the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are being compelled to fund $150 million software laboratories, based in the U.S. and almost 50% staffed by U.S. personnel, that generate data crucial to the fighter’s ability to identify new radio-frequency threats.
We did something similar with the threat libraries for the ESM gear on the Seahawk that got sold to the Aussies, back in 80'/90's. As I am about 20 years out of season on that platform, no idea what progress/upgrade our friends in Oz and the folks in DC have since worked out.
Originally Posted by LO
I object strongly. I am still at "sarcasm" level, and have to exhaust dramatic
irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire, before turning it a couple more stops to "abusive", at which point you will surely know about it.
It seems best to play the ball, not the man, as I have been advised a few times myself.