A radar glitch has caused more setbacks for the US Air Force’s much-maligned F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project which has been consistently dogged by software problems.
The new software bug causes the radar system to fail and forces the pilot to shut the radars off and turn them back on again in order to reset the system, putting the aircraft at severe risk even against less advanced jets, the Guardian reported Tuesday.
“What would happen is they would get a signal that says either a radar degrade or a radar fail — something that would force us to restart the radar,” said US Air Force Major General Jeffrey Harrigian.
Harrigian said Lockheed Martin, the company in charge of the project, has “discovered the root cause, and now they’re in the process of making sure they take that solution and run it through the [software testing] lab.”
The expensive warplane, which has been in the works since 2001, faces a slew of hardware and software issues…