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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This aligns exactly with what I expect is the real truth. I have doubts there's any actual killswitch because that'd be dumb - but a constant devouring of proprietary parts is absolutely the case.

I maintain that what actually happened is an airforce general bragged to Trump about how every F35 sold means decades of political dependence and service fees that would act like a kill switch to keep our allies in line and Trump heard the words kill switch and just ran with that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, what's easier?

  1. Developing a kill switch that can't be discovered and used against the States... somehow
  2. Not servicing parts.

Probably 2.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Yup! Also, Chinese intelligence work is insane - the chances that America could keep a kill switch out of Chinese hands is so vanishingly thin that anyone with a brain would prefer that such a kill switch didn't exist so it couldn't be used against the US.