Canada

'The F-35 may not have a “kill switch” in the traditional sense, but the countries who bought it are locked into an irrevocable pact with Lockheed Martin and America. ALIS/ ODIN might not be able to turn off the F-35 remotely, but losing access to it can make it impossible to fly.

Only one country has escaped the F-35 software and logistics trap while still being able to fly the jet: Israel. The IDF’s contract for the jet allows it to operate its own software systems without ALIS/ ODIN and conduct its own maintenance.'

So apparently only Israel can operate these planes without their weird DRM.

Hey now. To my knowledge, Teslas do not fall apart in the rain.

Time to give everyone nukes.

https://www.angryflower.com/422.html

Honest question because I don't know: I thought the US could only afford F35 development and purchasing cost because its supply chain was internationalized.

If all the world would suddenly decide to stop working on F35, and stopped supplying parts, wouldn't the US fleet also disintegrate after some time?

They’re absolutely right in that regard—technically, it’s more of a Deadman Switch.

"Pentagon denies"

Lol

Honestly, it doesn't matter if it's possible or not. The very fact that key replacement parts of the jet can only be built in the US means that the very moment they chose not to sell those parts to Canada, the F35 is on a strict time limit before becoming the world's most expensive paperweight.

And that time limit isn't even very long. Maybe two years of normal use outside of a war, as little as a month or two during a war or any sort of foreign deployment.

We're kinda locked in for the first few planes, but despite cancellation fees, we need to replace our aging fleet with something from someone that won't throw a tantrum and erase a key component of our national defense with the swipe of a pen.

Killswitch, definitely not.

The ability to upload a software patch that bricks the plane, maybe. The critical question will be whether the owner of the F-35 can control (i.e. block) software updates, and also whether there's a software backdoor to allow access in.

I'd give it better than a 50% chance of being accessible.

"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.