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The US may be able to remotely disable F-35 aircraft
(www.defensemirror.com)
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At which point you would roll back to the previous firmware, because of course we're going to keep copies. This sounds like a horrifically ineffective plan. We're certainly better off having fifth gen fighters with that incredibly minimal risk attached than we are with fourth gen fighters that are completely outclassed.
And again, if we're at the point where potential hostilities are close enough that a one month timebomb could matter then we're at the point where we're not loading any software the US sends us.
The far more meaningful risk here is that they can simply stop giving us new parts and software updates. That's actually a real and valid concern.
Alright, well, I think I've defended the idea enough for most readers, so I'll just drop it.
Parts are actually made all over the place, which is kind of surprising, but also kind of not when you consider how multilateral the development was. Japan alone has domestic sources for most of the whole plane, apparently. In the long term, we could develop our own software for it. I don't know if there's anything besides that that the US has a monopoly on.