The Hive Mind of the F-35 - Long Format

This is a long format video of the series dedicated to the F-35 software.

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[hectorloohan]

"The human quest for destroying each other never stops" i love the quote!

[craig]

This is about one of the only guys on YouTube that knows his stuff! The rest on YouTube are full of BS!

[Larry]

OK ---. Sensor Fusion is how the F-35 can find Enemy Stealth Aircraft. Which you kind of ignored. The F-35 Sensores takes short Garbage tracks that are thrown away by others and combines many from different widely spaced fighters, Awaaks, ground radars and combines reported garbage (Ghosts) from the "same locations" far and near, moving or fixed to create tracks that can then be identified as a Stealth Aircraft enemy or not other lone aircraft or fixed ground systems will miss. It is also how locks can be maintained on enemy fighters that suddenly depart from standard aspects going from heading toward the F-35 using Dopler Radar data, to flying sideways or cross track as well as hovering on the fighters engines tail down (famous Russian airshow maneuver) that would break Dopler Radar Tracks of older systems...

[loduke]

Real Engineering did an AMAZINGLY DETAILED analysis and breakdown of the F-35, I highly recommend it. It was done VERY well and surprised me on it's level of detail for each system. It gave me a renowned respect for the F-35

[nebojsanesic]

Man you research your topics. You videos are so information packed...I have to watch them several times!

[cannonfodder]

The Lightning II's stealth and engine are top stuff but its the software that where it truly shines. A good long form video.

[bastadimasta]

I watched this video 3 month later, and now I know why you were hospitalized a few weeks ago. It wasn't your heart, but it was the special forces.

[DimljenaRiba]

My academic background is from the humanities (I know that you STEM guys don’t recognize humanities as an academic field but let’s leave it out here 😂). But I was always interested in engineering and I had a lot of ideas as how to integrate different sensors. Watching your videos I realize how amazing the human brain truly is. I mean I had some classes in cognitive science and we discussed how neural networks operate but Synchronisation of data on the F-35 sounds like the pinnacle of engineering to me! I spent a little time with German tornado fighter jets but even compared to the Euro fighter they look like an Oldtimer. Thanks for this brilliant video!

[kathrynck]

nicely put together :) the long-format video I mean! Well the plane too.
I didn't notice your "quotation progress bars" the first time I saw all these. It's actually a really nice touch!

[brentmchenry]

Great full set stitched together... when it started I LOL'd cuz that intro was my favorite of urs so far

[ghostmourn]

I always really enjoy your videos. I love the humor, thank you.

[chilebean]

Your commentary is spot on and very informative. I wish some people I worked with would have benefited from your presentation

[mattmiller]

Thank you again for this astounding report. So much sophisticated, accurate data!🤤

[jimmycummings]

I always learn something while watching your videos.

[MoTheG]

The precision timing and localization feature is already part of Link-16.
While GPS provides exact time it isn't required for the functioning.
Without GPS the absolute location is lost but the relative tracks are available.

[CausticLemons]

Omg 48 minutes? Between you and Perun I've got a full schedule! LOL

[antrodeldungeonmaster]

OH COME ON OTIS... I WAS GONNA BELIEVE THE INTRO!!!

[synthilein]

13:16 *_Madl_* is the Bavarian and (for the most part) Austrian dialect word for *_Mädel_* which is the colloquial/slang word for *_Mädchen_* meaning _girl_
That's why we see these girls dressed in traditional Alpine/Bavarian garbs.
In (East/German language realm of) Switzerland (which is also alpine for the most part) on the other hand the slang word for _Mädchen_ whould be *_Meitli_*

Actually the only part of the entire German speaking realm where (strong) dialect is (pretty much) non-existent is around Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony). In every other part you will face somewhat of a distict vernacularity.

[patrickchase]

I've read a fair bit of the literature about naval data networks starting from NTDS, AN/SYS-1/2 (1970s system that could manage composite tracks across multiple radars on a single ship, and could initiate and maintain tracks even when no single radar satisfied its track-initiation criteria), AEGIS, SSDS, and CEC. The John Hopkins APL tech digest has some fairly high-level descriptions. It seems that those systems (especially CEC, with which the F-35B/C interoperate) represent an important branch of the F-35's "family tree".

CEC in particular is an important ancestor in that it was the first fielded system that I'm aware of wherein a (highly-directional, LPI) dedicated datalink is used to share low-level sensor data rather than established tracks, incorporating TDOA, sensor bias, etc. As with F-35 individual units create their own fused views from this data. It differs from F-35 in that it's almost entirely RF- entric (emphasis on radar and ESM). Its "costomer" is the entire crew of a CIC rather than a single pilot performing a single mission so its man-machine interface is very different. IIRC the F-35 can share low-level sensor data with CEC (via MADL terminals on CEC ships and maybe the E-2D?), not sure about the conerse.

There is also nontrivial literature about time/clock synchronization in systems going all the way back to NTDS. The TDOA problem is a very old one.

[ronaldwang]

F-35 core processor is PowerPC 7448 with 90nm technology note chip. F-22 core processor is PowerPC 603 with 500nm technology note chip, while J-20 core processor is 28-40nm technology note chip. F-35 radar APG-81 is AESA with gallium arsenide second generation semiconductor technology, 1676 T/R modules, F-22 radar APG-77 is AESA with gallium arsenide second generation semiconductor technology, 1956 T/R modules, Power 20kw(peak), while J-20 radar KLJ-5 1475 is AESA with gallium nitride third generation semiconductor technology, 2200 T/R modules, power 100kw.