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Air Force Studies Avionics Change For F-22 Upgrading

June 01 2011

USA

The U.S. Air Force is considering installing an open architecture system in its advanced F-22 Raptor fighters, reports Defense News.

Upgrading has proven so difficult that a second avionics system is being contemplated.

The highly integrated avionics system and reliance on Lockheed Martin and Boeing, the builder of the jet and onboard systems, for any such modifications adds to difficulties, said David Weber, the deputy director of the F-22 System Program Office (SPO) at...

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