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.
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.
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.
Yeah, what’s easier?
Probably 2.
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.