As a USian, please please boycott the fuck out of my country, it has completely gone off the rails.

Do not trust the US to function at a basic level for the forseeable future.

Also, even without any malicious back doors it is still likely far easier to attack the software and electronic vulnerabilities of the aircraft as you said.

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Yeah, but hold in your mind for a second how much windows 11 sucks, inject it with trillions of cancerous military industrial complex bloat dollars and top it with Stelantis touchscreen jeep ads and that will give you an idea of how much of a piece of shit the jet is.

Don’t get me wrong, along a lot of metrics it is a competitive advanced stealth-y fighter, but it is also just the most headachingly stupid overly wasteful arms project literally in history, ever.

The F35 is such a failure of wise resource allocation that no future military performance could possibly redeem it since that degree of stunningly large investment in virtually anything else would have yielded incomprehensibly more wealth, power and functional machines.

Every hour an F35 flys is so expensive it can’t do enough in that time to make the investment of resources to keep it from falling apart worth it. The mission has already failed by any reasonable metric the minute you turn the F35 on.