The Pentagon decided to modernize the F-18 fighters.

According to the information and news agency Avia.pro, starting next year, US F-18 deck-fighters will be equipped with upgraded software providing control of automatic approach and landing approach. In fact, the improved software will allow planes to land on the fighter deck even if the aircraft has received critical damage or its sensors and sensors have been disabled.

Pentagon officials, in turn, said that it will significantly improve the capabilities of the US fighter F-18, and it is likely to make them invincible, attributing it to the fact that even with critical injuries will be able to board planes on an aircraft carrier.

"The American program" Magic Carpet "allows F-18 fighters to partially automate the landing process on the deck of the aircraft carrier. In fact, this will significantly increase the likelihood of maintaining the aircraft, but at the same time it can not be said that during modernization, the aircraft will become invincible, as the developers will add only one single function, which will not affect the combat qualities of the aircraft ", - the expert Avia.pro marks.

It should be clarified that the main reason for updating the software was its incorrect work in the face of unfavorable weather conditions, but now this problem is completely eliminated.

* F-18 - American deck fighter-bomber and attack aircraft, developed in the 1970-ies. Today it is the main combat aircraft of the US Navy. It is in service with a number of countries in Europe and Asia, it was used in military operations in Libya, Iraq, Yugoslavia.