US allies using the fifth-generation multi-role fighter F-35 Lightning II will not have access to complete information about the aircraft.
We are talking about an automatic subsystem responsible for the diagnosis of on-board equipment, planning maintenance and repair, ordering spare parts. The original system was called ALIS - it turned out to be excessively complex, the specialists of the US Air Force failed to make it work normally. On 14 fighters, ALIS will be replaced with a new subsystem, ODIN - it, like the entire aircraft, was developed at Lockheed Martin.
The new equipment is much more compact and eight times lighter than the previous one, the Pentagon reported. It works twice as fast. This was achieved thanks to the use of cloud technologies. The disadvantage of this approach is the excessive openness of the data.
It has long been suspected that the American and British F-35s have capabilities that the Lightning II, assembled for other countries, does not have. And providing other countries with access to data on the characteristics and maintenance of such aircraft may be excessive even for loyal US allies, Breaking Defense writes.
To protect this information, ODIN may be improved.
Anton Valagin