I’ve seen a few articles now that US fighter jets have kill switches in them, so the US could just render them useless for anyone they’ve sold them to.
Is this true? It sounds insane to me, I’ve always assumed that countries that buy these jets have full control over them. It’s a gaping hole in your defence if you don’t.
I don’t think they do. No military would buy such things. The way they prevent their own weapons being used against them is buy making the export models inferior to that of their own. Same applies to Abrams tanks too.
My thoughts exactly, I can’t imagine a military paying 100 million per F35, that somebody can just turn off remotely, leaving them dead in the water.