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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 military spending.

Trust lost is trust that either never comes back or it takes tremendous, long term continuous effort. Not holding my breath.

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Recent F-16 fiasco? I didn't see this. What happened?

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-c...

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

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

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

"Military functionality license expired. Surfacing required to renew license. Surface Now? [Yes] / [Okay]."

“Dive dive dive”

“We can’t. The updates are still updating”

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