Forum: F-35 Armament, Stores and Tactics

archeman wrote:

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With the right software the F-35 should also be able to determine the launch trajectory and likely impact points.

Isn't a better scenario for the aircraft systems to relay what it knows about the launch and track to ground networks that can assimilate that with other information and have access to more far more computing power to perform the final targeting estimates?
That way you don't need to make room for more bells and whistles on an already stressed program.
Even if you did have that feature on the aircraft chewing up cpu cycles to determine nearly exact impact point, the pilot really can't do anything with the computed results other than to relay them.

It's not as if the geo-location will take up a great deal of time(or take away other functionalities.) That's the big point about sensor fusion- spherical multi-sensor/multi-spectral ISR, which is then fused into a single presentation to the pilot(and the entire process is transparent to the pilot). Missile launches, RF emissions, ground/air threats, Blue Force locations, etc... are all presented in an easy to grasp format, for situational awareness. Additionally, this big picture is automatically updated via offboard platforms/sensors too, so that everyone in the network, knows what everyone else knows.

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