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I would be very worried about any form of built in kill switch / degrade effectiveness based on recent F-16 fiasco that sobered entire Europe into massive milit

I would be very worried about any form of built in kill switch / degrade effectiveness based on recent F-16 fiasco that sobered entire Europe into massive military spending. Trust lost is trust that either never comes back or it takes tremendous, long term continuous effort. Not holding my breath.

adgjlsfhk1 1y ago
the good news here is that embedding a kill switch into a nuclear sub won't work very well since they don't communicate with the outside world for months at a time
- mindslight 1y ago
  "Military functionality license expired. Surfacing required to renew license. Surface Now? [Yes] / [Okay]."
  - Waterluvian 1y ago
    “Dive dive dive” “We can’t. The updates are still updating”
- delfinom 1y ago
  Well, yes but no. Hence the doomsday planes specifically made to communicate with deep sea subs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-6_Mercury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-6_Mercury Tl;dr attenuation of signals in water is frequency dependent, just like in air or walls, etc. So the plane has a 5 mile long antenna
echelon 1y ago
Recent F-16 fiasco? I didn't see this. What happened?
- c420 1y ago
  I believe op is referencing the halting of EW support and software updates to Ukrainian f-16's. https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2025/03/09/russian-media-claim-u-s-halts-the-f-16s-ew-aid-to-ukraine/ https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2025/03/09/russian-media-c...