Air Force: No new requirements from Boeing's JSTARS fuselage study

By Rachel Cohen / February 3, 2017 at 9:30 AM
Boeing will not recommend any new service-life requirements for the legacy Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System as a result of its now-complete widespread fatigue testing, the Air Force said this week. Col. Ray Wier, chief of the battle management directorate's command-and-control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance division, told Inside the Air Force in a Jan. 31 email the study "uses Boeing's analytical methods to determine the structural life of each of the seven fuselage sections until the onset of...

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