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The Pentagon Denies the F-35 Has a Kill Switch, but Its Software Demands Amount to the Same Thing (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 52 points 1 year ago (1 child)

"The Pentagon Denies" means absolutely nothing. Their president lies 1000 times a day, and denies all kinds of wrongdoing where there are objective facts contradicting him.

Americans cannot be trusted, especially not when we are talking about military equipment that we may need to use to defend ourselves FROM THEM!

Just buy from the EU.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago*

    Just buy from the EU.

    Yes, but...
    The same could happen the the EU, as with any foreign power.
    It's unlikely as the EU is fundamentally built differently. But it could, no doubt a country that wanted to push through their adjenda by exploiting loopholes that haven't been discovered/exploited because of "decorum" could still happen.

    Buy source-provided.
    So, you get everything you need to maintain the platform with the purchase cost.
    If you want updates and improvements, they have additional cost.
    Like so many software licencing models. 1 year of updates - except it's source provided.
    It's more expensive, but you get what you pay for.
    Renew your licence every year for another year.
    Stop paying? You get to use the EJ69 fighter jet platform as it was in 2019 for as long as you can manufacture parts for it.

    Or you could buy the cloud-hosted fighter jets. And risk the off-switch. But it's less upfront cost, higher long-term cost

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