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The US can remotely disable them whenever they damn well please anyway, and can not be trusted not to.
Everyone should be canceling their orders immediately, and disable the remote access capabilities to the ones they have.
Has it actually been confirmed they can do this? I would assume they backdoor them, but usually backdoors are secret.
They don’t function without phoning home to a US-controlled server every 24 hours.
Give is to Empress, she’ll knock out a crack in no time.
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They require software updates for every mission, that are distributed from the US.
You can probably fly / use it without those, but you lose all the advanced command & control features
Some high ranking US intelligence dude said something along the lines of that yeah. I dont think anyone has hacked into one of them to check or reverse engineer the code tho.
Nobody should have ever purchased military equipment with that feature.
They cannot be trusted, that much we know. We need to become independent and not reliant
As should europe. Clearly you can't trust the USA anymore. What is the long-term prospect for spare parts?
From what I've heard you need a password that changes on the daily to start a F-35 and that the US are the only ones that can provide it. If that is true, it's a tremendous oversite for any sovereign state.
wait......WHAT??? it doesn't sound unlikely (tesla can be disabled remotely by tesla), but why would you buy it in such case? That's why I voted the piracy party a couple of times. Not because I fully agree, but just to get people with at least some IT knowledge in
The aircraft has significant security risks for sure and makes sense to cancel. But canceling the order won't be on Trump's radar unless it affects his inner circle of evil billionaires who have funneled dark money to him.
We should throw some cash at Saab and see if they can come up with a stealth gripen or something.
Careful, that’s how you end up with cool sedans and hatchbacks.
Goddamn right we should. Take the French up on the offer to build the Rafale here. Or the Swedes. And get a few demo units for short term.
Fuck 'em on any cancellation fees too. Consider it partial compensation for the ridiculous trade war.
Bring back the avro arrow. Let's do it.
Canada should cancel the F-35 contract and their are better fighter jets from reliable NATO allies. The F-35 is a $2 trillion USD turd that is still not 100%. If Canada continues to purchase US weapons, this would be like Poland buying weapons from Nazi Germany. I am hoping the US MIC becomes pissed off.
2 trillion is a fuckload of drones!
We shouldn't have caved back in the Arrow days.