{"id":112014,"date":"2024-08-21T22:23:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T12:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-fighter-jets-f-15ex-f-a-18e-f-bae-systems-new-flight-control-computers\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T22:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T12:23:59","slug":"bae-systems-to-upgrade-us-fighter-jets-new-f-15ex-f-a-18e-f-flight-control-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=112014","title":{"rendered":"BAE Systems To Upgrade US Fighter Jets: New F-15EX &amp; F\/A-18E\/F Flight Control Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Defense contractor <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/british-aerospace\/\">BAE Systems<\/a> has been awarded a contract to upgrade the fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control computers (FCC) for the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-15\/\">F-15EX Eagle II<\/a> and the F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet fighter jets. These fighter jets are the latest (and likely the last) variants of the respective fighter jet families. The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/flagship-f-15ex-eagle-ii-delivery\/\">first F-15EXs are just now being delivered<\/a> while <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-f-a-18-super-hornet-last-orders\/\">the final order for the Super Hornet has been placed<\/a>. The move to upgrade the onboard computers is a reminder that modern fighter jets are increasingly flying supercomputers.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAE is upgrading the FWB FCC computers of the US military&#8217;s newest 4.5th-generation fighter aircraft in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1278,2125,8528,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-british-aerospace-bae","category-f-15","category-f-a-18","category-guides"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112015,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112014\/revisions\/112015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}