They have to go with a more COTS based system (similar to, if not the
same as the JSF), which they are working on now, for fielding in (very
optomisticlly) in 2007.

Other than using commercialy available processor chips, what is "COTS"
about it?
Hint - nothing.

Other than the Raptors costs its the cheapest fighter in the world...
seriously the F-22 team will be levering the development work on the
JSF for all its worth, anything to shove costs away from the f-22
program.

The question asked above says that the F-35 system is more COTS than
the F-22, and I dispute that. When people talk COTS wrt avionics I usually
start laughing, most have no idea what they are talking about.
Present company excluded of course.
Harry I'm no expert on computer architecture, far from it, I couldn't
design one from scratch without some serious training. but I note the
USAF have called for more 'COTS based' solutions and they sure are
making a mark in aircraft avionics (rugged PowerPC's in the
Typhoons DASS etc), how they are connected and the software that runs
them are certianly not COTS.

Moto-based processors were tried. I don't know what the current vector
is, I'm on different programs, but I expect they'll eventually settle on a G5
or better.

Thanks for that.

Great, here' s a couple of questions for you.
Do you think they will combine the AESA antennas for the JSF and the
F-22 to a common 1200 module system? (I saw the number of modules for
the F-22 was at 1500). I had heard a rumour that this was on the
cards for cost savings etc.

I can not comment on that for security reasons, but I did hear the
same thing.

Why is the Raptors Software so troubled?.
You are asking me to pubically bash my customer.

No, I wouldn't ask anyone to do that publically (my emails at the
bottom ;-) ) , thanks for the info.

Cheers

John Cook

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