Stealth fighters hit by software crash

[tunafish]

this takes the whole blue screen of death to a new level :)

[guru]

Eagle 1-6 reporting BSOD...... LOL

LOL :rofl:

[Aero Ultimate]

Perhaps they installed software Vista didn't like, and Vista revoked activation?

"Here Eagle One, reporting Reduced Functionality Mode..." :laugh:

[Rappy Veteran]

Don't you hate that when that happens :D

[Regert]

And Air tracking; you don't want to fly into a cloud to go head-to-head with a 747.

hehe. True. :-D

[Fred Derf Veteran]

F-22 Raptors running Windows? :rofl:

That puts a whole new meaning to the Blue Screen of Death

(apologies if that has already been stated in this thread)

Edit: It has, it has.

[Kirkburn]

Come on people, use your imagination.

Let's try some comments that don't actually mention Windows! It'll be hard, I know, but you can do it!

[JorgeIvan]

Come on people, use your imagination.

Let's try some comments that don't actually mention Windows! It'll be hard, I know, but you can do it!

Impossible, Neowin :shiftyninja:

[winmoose]

All these comments ridiculing windows, yet clearly the aircraft use their own custom made software, probably derived from software on existing military hardware.

What this really shows is that Windows is actually quite reliable, if the military can't even get it right.

[Aokromes]

Someone forgot a IF on their code.

[LOC Veteran]

Obviously the military uses Linux, this was obviously a kernel panic that occured and caused the issue. That's what they get for using open source garbage!

Sorry, I had to throw a Linux bash in there what with all the Windows comments :D

I'm pretty sure the planes don't use Windows or Linux - though I wouldn't be surprised if its a custom BSD thingamagig. But it is pretty scary that the US military had something like this slip through the cracks, imagine if it happened during combat operations or something :|

[markwolfe Veteran]

Obviously the military uses Linux, this was obviously a kernel panic that occured and caused the issue. That's what they get for using open source garbage!

...

Oh, please. Get real.

All the military had to do was download the updated nightly build of the devnullf22a_23418-tango module, and patch it manually into their modified kernel and do a simple recompile with the "--nocrash --stealthy" flags set and linked to the local static libraries (not the default dynamic ones, or you have to use the previous revision of the driver). Sure, the nightly build has an issue where you have to pull the "eject" lever to start the engines, but that is tracked in stealthzilla, and should be fixed soon. Until then, it is an "end user" issue - teach the pilots this new method.

Puh-leeeez! Linux is, like, soooo easy! ;)

[JorgeIvan]

US Superfighter software glitch fixed

Significant new capabilities have been added to the US Air Force's latest superfighter, the F-22 "Raptor". The USAF's Raptors cost more than $300m each, and are generally thought to be the most advanced combat jets in service worldwide. However, until recently they were unable to cross the international date line owing to a software bug in their navigation systems.

A group of F-22s heading across the Pacific for exercises in Japan earlier this month suffered simultaneous total nav-console crashes as their longitude shifted from 180 degrees West to 180 East.

Luckily, the superjets were accompanied by tanker planes, whose navigation kit was somewhat less bleeding-edge and remained functional. The tanker drivers were able to guide the lost top-guns back to Hawaii and the exercises were postponed.

"Every time we fly this jet we learn something new," Raptor squadron commanding officer Lt-Col Wade Tolliver said.

But enemies of democracy who may have been planning an opportunistic attack on Hawaii followed by a retreat to safety across the date line shouldn't get their hopes up. The software bug has been rectified, and the Raptors have now successfully travelled to Kadena Air Base in Japan, where air-combat exercises are now well underway.

"This is history in the making," said Brigadier Punch Moulton, commanding the Kadena-based 18th Wing.

The deployment is expected to last more than three months. ?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/28/f22s_working_again/