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According to an article by Bloomberg, the United States will be forced to increase spending on modernizing the F35 fighter's onboard computer to the TR3 standard. House Armed Services Committee Vice Chairman Rob Wittman said it would be necessary to spend about $225 million more.
In 2018, the contract to modernize the fighter jets was estimated at $718 million, and last year the additional costs already amounted to $680 million.
Deliveries of the F35 fighter jets with the updated computer were scheduled to begin in 2023 but have now been pushed back to June 2024.
According to Edward Smith, director of commercial development for the F35 program at Lockheed Martin, modernizing the fighter to the TR3 standard will be the basis for the development of the “Block 4” version.
The aim is to enable the aircraft to employ more advanced sensors, more sophisticated electronic warfare systems and more precise, longerrange munitions, as well as to improve data processing and synthesis capacity and increase the fighter's functional compatibility with other platforms.
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