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[–] decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Okay so just to clarify what the software lockdown on F-35 means is that other country except the USA aren't allowed to create update to the software. Exception for Israel and maybe the UK (don't quote me) are allowed to modify the software themselves.

It doesn't mean a instant kill switch. But it does mean that if the USA decides to block someone from update it's much harder for a country to make their own update.

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Weren't some of the US helicopters that were captured in Ukraine remotely disabled? I seem to remember a Russian general having a hissy fit about it early in the invasion.

I assumed F35s have a similar lockout mechanism.

[–] decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

If you have an article or maybe remember more details about that story?

The closest I could find is this.

Ukraine doesn't really operate western helicopter in general so the story may have been about something else. We have reports of the Russian using captured American armor vehicles. So no kill switch in those.

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Hrm... Yeah, I'm not finding anything either. Might be I misunderstood something at the time, or took a rumor at the time as fact.

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