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I've been wondering the same about arms exports for a while. Why wouldn't exported arms all have a killswitch?

• hedora 2y ago
  Things like airplanes require a steady supply of spare parts, so they effectively already do. (It just takes a while to kick in.) But, yeah, I’ve wondered that too, especially for advanced armaments.
  • exe34 2y ago
    part of the issue is how you communicate with the weapons. a lot of jamming happens in a warzone. high tech weapons would be easily jammed by the enemy, and low tech weapons would get hacked by the former friend.
    • hedora 2y ago
      Dead man interlocks should work reasonably well, assuming the computer is tamper resistant. (It would need to see a “still OK to use” code every N days”, or disable itself.)