F-35 Officials Prove Need for Cyber Testing by Cancelling One
"..cyber tests are particularly important for the F-35, which is commonly referred to as a “
flying computer.”
The plane has approximately
30 million lines of software code controlling all of the plane’s functions, from moving flight surfaces to creating images in its infamous
$600,000 helmet.
All this is tightly integrated with the ALIS program, which many consider to be
the plane’s largest vulnerability.
Should an enemy hack the ALIS system successfully, they could disable F-35 systems in combat, cause disastrous crashes, or
ground the entire fleet."...