Integrated diagnostic for new French fighter

An important logistic support function of airborne weapon systems is automatic failure detection and localization. On the new French fighter aircraft this function is being developed as a whole, taking into account the needs for all maintenance levels. O-level maintenance uses integrated monitoring and testing, which is described. The intermediate level maintenance is performed by a unique test system used for production equipment acceptance and maintenance in the user´s operational intermediate workshops. Appropriate data are exchanged between maintenance levels by means of digital media. The main feature has been to apply, to all maintenance levels and as far as possible, the integrated maintenance concept which has been used for automatic diagnostics in Mirage 2000 aircraft taking into account the good results experienced since 1982.<>