> What platform does a cutting edge fighter even use? Generally speaking, something older than you might suspect. For instance, while the F-35 officially enter

> What platform does a cutting edge fighter even use? Generally speaking, something older than you might suspect. For instance, while the F-35 officially entered service with various branches of the US armed forces as early as 2015, its first flight was in 2006. The experimental plane first flew in 2000, and the earliest design work began in 1995. Not that the compute/avionics hardware is ever truly locked into stone considering the successive F-35 production Blocks with both iterative software and hardware upgrades that have already been fielded, Service Life Extension Programs that the plane will receive in coming decades, and so on, but expect at least some of the silicon in there to share more with a Pentium 3 than a Ryzen 7.