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There were backdoors in Exocet missiles 30 years ago. What makes you think an F-35 would be cleaner than that?

• arethuza 10y ago
  Do you have a reference for that - the UK did a lot to try and stop Argentina getting more Exocets during the Falklands War (which is presumably what you are referring to) but I don't recall any references to the UK exploiting any explicit backdoors that the French had put in the missiles.
  • pbhjpbhj 10y ago
    Would the French want to give the UK superiority in that situation, would they want to reveal their hand when not 'personally' threatened?
• krona 10y ago
  http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/11152/can-exocet-missiles-be-remotely-disabled-with-secret-codes http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/11152/can-exocet...
• valuearb 10y ago
  The claim of Excocet backdoor rest on the thin reed that somehow the French supplied the codes but U.K. Leaders didn't use them, willingly risking the lives of hundreds of their sailers, for "strategic reasons", while the U.K. Was already in danger of quitting the war had they lost more key ships such as carriers or transports. And Exocets were "fire and forget" missiles with 3 mins to target flight time. They had no need for a remote control system once launched. They flew only a couple meters above the sea, and didn't turn on radar until half way into flight, making them extremely hard to detect until the last seconds. Super improbable that any backdoor ever existed.