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Or because Israel has sold technology to China before against the US's wishes. Lockheed and its contractors have no interest in betting their intellectual prop
by aerostable_slug 2y ago
Or because Israel has sold technology to China before against the US's wishes.
Lockheed and its contractors have no interest in betting their intellectual property, nor the US in betting our national security advantage, to the whims of the current administration of whomever buys our F-35s. Therefore the avionics are constructed with robust anti-tampering/RE mechanisms. You can have them, but you can't make more or sell the secret sauce.
- libertine 2y agoLeaks and property theft happen, both internally and on the outside - even the anecdotes of the War Thunder leaks are a good example of it. With that said, it looks like what's happening is that Europe, Canada, and probably more to come, have no interest in betting their National Security on the whims of one guy pulling the rug on them, as Trump did to Ukraine to appease Putin. The problem here isn't IP theft - it's about reliability.