completely normal (Score 3, Interesting)

This happens literally all the time with software updates on jets, anyone who's worked on any other generation fighter/attack aircraft in the "digital age" knows this. The interesting part, is that someone is publicly complaining about it, and making a software version with a bug, known to the public. Every radar system we've produced for 30 years has issues, again, this is completely normal. This article is about sounding some sort of political alarm, it shows that there's some dissent among the ranks, and I can assure you, that any experienced test pilot wouldn't even be remotely surprised to see this type of behavior, but the usual course of action is to document it and train the pilots in the short term, while releasing a new version of software in the long term. Pilots fly with "radar degrade" every single day. This is making a standard issue between contractors and military flight crews, into a public pentagon issue, to either ask congress for more money, rather than holding said contractors accountable for their failure to meet some sort of design goal, or to try to join the "anti F-35" team to advance his own career in some way. Our jets are flying way beyond their designed limitations right now, and the longer it takes to replace them, the worse off all of our military personnel are going to be.