With or without kill switch, US can make your F-35 fighters useless
FirstpostAt a time when US President Donald Trump is arm-twisting European partners, there are fears that the United States could remotely make their F-35 fighter planes ineffective via a ‘kill switch’ or other features A flight deck crew signal to F-35 jet on USS George Washington during Freedom Edge trilateral exercise among United States, Japan and South Korea in the East China Sea, south of the Korean peninsula and west of Japan's main islands November 14, 2024. Such fears have emerged from concerns of F-35s having a ‘kill switch’ that the United States could use to make these planes ineffective. While Portugal did not explicitly refer to the kill switch, Defence Minister Nuno Melo said that “the recent position of the United States in the context of Nato must make us think the best options”. The idea behind the F-35 kill switch is this: if the country operating F-35s does not do Trump’s bidding, the United States could remotely trigger these kill switches to make these warplanes useless.
History of this topic
Could Trump really flick F-35 'kill-switch' to disable European air force fleet?
Daily MailDiscover Related