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The first F-22 they delivered to japan had serious trouble when it crossed the international date line

Sounds like nobody was hurt & they didn't lose any planes, but there was some period of time where the onboard computers were not good

https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/f22-squadron-shot-down-...

Yet another reason to exercise low-level math functions with a wide range of inputs -- maybe not on every run, but at least in pre-release integration tests

There are only 4 billion floats

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...




F-22 weren't exported, it was probably just at Okinawa




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