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you wouldn't like to bet that the US are the only ones capable of turning it off, either.
by harry8 7y ago
you wouldn't like to bet that the US are the only ones capable of turning it off, either.
- wil421 7y ago“Off” in quotes. I bet it’s more like a software license. “you missed your 60 day update from Lockheed, your jet will stop working”
- p_l 7y agoThey fail to be fully operational after 30 days without connection to Lockheed servers, which is a problem even for USA because the connection is bandwidth intensive.
- 14 7y agoReading your comment I pictured Geohot attempting to jailbreak an f35. It made me wonder can you brick an f35?
- wil421 7y agoI believe the F-22 software is written in Ada. I had a classmate in college who was in the air force. He said updating an F-22 took hours and if something happened you had to start over which happened often.
- no-dr-onboard 7y agoI can confirm that. Interviewed at skunk works in Lancaster. They shared this exact knowledge.
- dreamcompiler 7y agoF35s do a perfectly good job of bricking themselves. On a consistent and routine basis.