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  • It’s certainly classified info, but I sincerely doubt the F35 has a kill switch.

    If you have a kill switch on a weapon, that means an enemy can potentially disable your weapons.

    One can argue that only export models would be equipped with a kill switch, but that puts the US in the position of potentially having Allied planes disabled remotely, leaving the US as the only air support in a conflict.

    It’s far more likely that the US would simply discontinue parts and software updates, leaving a former ally scrambling to maintain their sudden white elephant fleet, while the US updates their own software to better manage fighting an identical aircraft that they know the exact technical specs of.










  • Ah yes, the company that routinely blows up rockets to test them, and that took several minutes to realize their first starship blew up wants to be in charge of airline safety.

    I’d rather they pull a random 12 year old from school and give them the job of running the fucking place. At least the 12 year old doesn’t have a track record of fucking up 50% of the time.