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Portugal Drops Plans for F-35 Citing U.S. Political Uncertainty
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Ooofff he's fucking with the war machine. Let's see how this plays for trump. Lol
The German industrialists thought they could control Hitler in 1933 too.
It's fine, I'm sure he'll be selling them to Russia before too long.
I doubt Russia would want to buy warplanes with a US kill switch.
Once this kill switch stuff keeps popping up:
https://theaviationist.com/2025/03/10/f-35-kill-switch-myth/
TL;DR: There is no kill switch per se (as in flip it and brick the thing), but a huge dependency on logistics, services and systems that operators outside the US have no influence over. That in turn will cause the plane - while still flyable - to be grounded over time as it cannot be maintained, rearmed and operated effectively anymore.
At the end the effects are the same of a kill switch