In an article -- 
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/business/27fighter.html?oref=login&th

In the NY Times today is included the following:

    The Raptor faced a number of technological hurdles this year and
    last. The most crucial concerned its avionics, or on-board
    electronics, designed to detect enemy fighters far beyond the
    pilot's field of vision.

    The avionics are "orders of magnitude more complicated than any
    other plane's," said Ralph Heath, a Lockheed executive vice
    president and F-22 manager in Fort Worth. The Raptor's electronic
    brain is based in part on a 32-bit Intel
   
http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=INTC>
    processor, made in the 1990's and now discontinued.

    The avionics "did not work as planned and that took us a while to
    figure out," Mr. Heath said. As late as last year, the on-board
    software was crashing roughly ever two hours in flight tests. Air
    Force officials said the unpredictable computer crashes were no
    surprise, given the complexity of the systems.

Now why does that surprise me - and I wonder which company provided the 
software?

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Regards,
Mike

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