This Is The Most Important Technology On the F-35

[AMDR]

This Is The Most Important Technology On the F-35
JANUARY 19, 2016
BY PATRICK TUCKER

Cognitive EW, today in its infancy, may one day justify the Joint Strike Fighter’s enormous cost.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the most expensive weapons program ever, won’t justify its price tag by outmaneuvering other jets (it can’t), flying particularly fast, or even by carrying munitions in a stealthy bomb bay. Instead, the U.S. military is banking on an emerging technology called cognitive electronic warfare to give the jet an almost-living ability to sniff out new hard-to-detect air defenses and invent ways to foil them on the fly.

While the specifics of the jet’s electronic warfare, or EW, package remain opaque, scientists, program watchers and military leaders close to the program say it will be key to the jet’s evolution and its survival against the future’s most advanced airplane-killing technology. In short, cognitive EW is the most important feature on the world’s most sophisticated warplane.

The rest of the article is here: This Is The Most Important Technology On the F-35 - Defense One

 

[C130]

that's a game changer against worthy foe like Russia or China, but against rats in Iraq/Afghanistan?? how does that it help kill them.

 

[rockstar08]

that's a game changer against worthy foe like Russia or China, but against rats in Iraq/Afghanistan?? how does that it help kill them.

there is no reason for US to go to war with Russia or China ..
all three powers have enough nukes to destroy each other's country ..