F-35 News. If they can do this with 10 year old sensors....

via Fox News.

The idea with a demonstration, sources indicate, would be to use the F-35 as an airborne relay node or sensor in place of the E-2D Hawkeye. This could allow NIFC-CA to operate against an increasingly complex set of targets such as stealthy targets, the Lockheed executive explained.
Sensors on the F-35 include the Active Electronically Scanned Array, or AESA, radar as well as a system called Distributed Aperture System, or DAS, which combines input from as many as six different electro-optical cameras on the aircraft. The aircraft also draws upon a technology called Electro-optical Targeting System, or EOTS, which helps identify and pinpoint targets. EOTS, which does both air-to-air and air-to-ground targeting, is able to combine forward-looking infrared and infrared search and track technology.

Read the entire article but the question must be asked.

If they're going to do this with an airplane that has avionics that are 10 years behind what the Super Hornet and Growler currently carry into combat then what can they do with the mentioned airplanes?

They're trying to awe the crowd because they don't know any better.  What has me scratching my head is the attempts to wedge the F-35 into missions that it wasn't designed to fulfill.  They're creating "make work" missions for a plane that isn't capable of doing the needed missions of air superiority, close air support, deep strike etc...

I'm not impressed.  NAVAIR knows better but they're trying to prop up a failed airplane.