Look Up! Chinese Spy Balloon overhead

[toddnjoyce]

I can't remember the last update I read on it, I just remember I haven't seen any articles titled "At Last! The F-35's Super Visibility Helmet Is Fully Operational!" yet. Ambitious technology, and the fighter's not 'crippled' by any means with its current capability, but eventually I hope they get the last bugs fixed.

This article implies a significant change beginning with lot 15 birds this year.

F-35′s X-Ray Vision System Is Getting An Upgrade, But Will It Actually Save Money?

Lockheed Martin and Raytheon say the update will improve the jet's capability and save money, but it could exacerbate existing sustainment issues.

www.thedrive.com

The contract announcement is too vague to verify if the DAS upgrade made it as part of TR4.

Pentagon and Lockheed Martin Finalize Lot 15-17 Agreement, Capping a Year of International Growth

/PRNewswire/ -- The F-35 Joint Program Office and Lockheed Martin have finalized the contract for the production and delivery for up to 398 F-35s for $30...

www.prnewswire.com

 

[General Zod]

This article implies a significant change beginning with lot 15 birds this year.

F-35′s X-Ray Vision System Is Getting An Upgrade, But Will It Actually Save Money?

Lockheed Martin and Raytheon say the update will improve the jet's capability and save money, but it could exacerbate existing sustainment issues.

www.thedrive.com

The contract announcement is too vague to verify if the DAS upgrade made it as part of TR4.

Pentagon and Lockheed Martin Finalize Lot 15-17 Agreement, Capping a Year of International Growth

/PRNewswire/ -- The F-35 Joint Program Office and Lockheed Martin have finalized the contract for the production and delivery for up to 398 F-35s for $30...

www.prnewswire.com

A lot of people like to point to the helmet system as evidence that the F-35 is a "boondoggle" but honestly it's ambitious technology that's just gonna have some teething issues. That fact that it works well under most conditions is effing impressive.

 

[toddnjoyce]

A lot of people like to point to the helmet system as evidence that the F-35 is a "boondoggle" but honestly it's ambitious technology that's just gonna have some teething issues. That fact that it works well under most conditions is effing impressive.

It is. I recall the original OT&E pilots had some significant spatial D challenges adapting to the camera view in the helmet. Apparently it was an opaque, not transparent, view when looking down.

Imagine looking at your crotch and seeing nothing but blue sky and clouds instead.

 

[General Zod]

It is. I recall the original OT&E pilots had some significant spatial D challenges adapting to the camera view in the helmet. Apparently it was an opaque, not transparent, view when looking down.

Imagine looking at your crotch and seeing nothing but blue sky and clouds instead.

It would be disorienting to be sure.

 

[cycleguy2300]

I am telling ya, when they recover and open the payload, it is gonna be all civilian weather equipment. We were played.

Wouldn't surprise me at all, but it should have been busted a long time before this.

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[candcallen]

If it was a balloon they accidentally lost control of they would have said something.

This said, that could have been the case to begin with that the chicoms then took advantage of. In that case it's still a chicom spy balloon.

Someone show me a weather balloon with that kind of payload.

The truth is probably Somewhere in between. As always.

 

[Brains]

The truth in this case is likely worse than we'll know the details of. I'm sure they're going to learn the Chinese have acquired tech we thought was 'unavailable.'

 

[Vaquero]

I want to know about the payload.

 

[General Zod]

I want to know about the payload.

We're unlikely to get much on that.

 

[striker55]

I want to know about the payload.

Probably another variant of COVID which got released when it got shot down. Chinese clapping when we finally shot it down.