# F-35: Death spiral is closing in **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 21, 2016, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-35-death-spiral-is-closing-in/766493 "2016-09-21T11:23:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 189
**Author:** ![SamuelA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-35-death-spiral-is-closing-in/766493/189 "2018-03-05T22:29:54Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > While it probably will end up costing an appalling amount (like most government work) the concept was that the F-35 was designed to make hardware updates easier: [The F-35 With Software Upgradeability Built In](http://www.sldinfo.com/whitepapers/the-f-35-with-software-upgradeability-built-in/) Yeah, makes sense. And coremelt keeps ranting on about not having anywhere to dissipate the waste heat or not enough power. Like, really dude? It’s a jet fighter. I don’t think he has any idea what he’s talking about. In fact the aircraft can potentially produce so much power that on paper it can drive a laser weapon. Mere machine vision is 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller. Now, yeah, you won’t be able to just cram in a circuit board festooned with the most power hungry GPUs into the same slot that whatever it currently has occupies. There are limits and any major modifications to the airframe such as upsizing it’s alternator (I assume that is what it ultimately has - an engine driven alternator) or adding new cooling channels aren’t going to be cheap. But I’m beginning to get the idea that coremelt is not a credible or rational poster. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/f-35-death-spiral-is-closing-in/766493)._