The Rumor Mill News Reading Room A Tale of Two Gatling Guns: F-35 vs. A-10 Posted By: IZAKOVIC Date: Sunday, 4-Jan-2015 10:17:39...
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A Tale of Two Gatling Guns: F-35 vs. A-10
Posted By: IZAKOVIC
Date: Sunday, 4-Jan-2015 10:17:39
by Brendan McGarry on January 2, 2015
The Daily Beast’s Dave Majumdar is out with another excellent story about how the gun on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Pentagon’s newest and most expensive fighter jet, won’t work for another four years — at the earliest.
That’s because the software that lets pilots shoot the Gatling gun, which is critical for the aircraft to provide close-air support to ground troops, isn’t expected to ship until 2019, according to the article.
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http://defensetech.org/2015/01/02/a-tale-of-two-gatling-guns-f-35-vs-a-10/#more-24326
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This formidably expensive and useless thing will fly w/o gatling gun as a new generation multirole substitute of A10, F16, F/A18, Harrier II, F22 and everything else because software that is to connect it's radar target acquisition, a trigger on pilot's stick, and gatling electric motor is so complex to be developed and integrated into ship's software inside 4 weeks?
Why Pentagon does not employ any software company from Europe (like Croatia), India, or, God forbid, Russia, or China, to compose a code to operate it, in 3 months (or less)?
IZAKOVIC
