Lockheed
Underpinning the F-35’s unrivaled capabilities is more than 8 million lines of software code – more than four times the amount of the world’s first 5th generation fighter, the F-22 Raptor. From flight controls to fusing together the F-35’s sensor data to form a clear and comprehensive picture of the battlespace, software is essential.
F-35 software enables:
Flight controls
Radar functionality
Communications, navigation and identification
Electronic attack
Sensor fusion
Weapons deployment
A Block Development Approach
From the program’s outset, the software team has focused on developing six key software releases known as Blocks:
Excerpted by Mod2
https://www.f35.com/about/life-cycle/software
