Posted on 03/10/2025 11:48:36 AM PDT by buwaya
Canada has ordered 88 F-35A fighters for $14.5 billion, and now they are really discussing whether the Pentagon can press a special button and turn all those aircraft into scrap metal if necessary The fear of being left unarmed and defenseless against armed aggression is exactly what the Trumpists have sown among their allies with their latest actions. Canadians, who have repeatedly heard threats from Donald Trump about the "51st U.S. state" and face the tariff war unleashed by Washington, have become anxious about their security.
So, Canadian expert circles have expressed concerns about the ongoing acquisition of American F-35 fifth-generation fighters and to consider whether the government should cancel the deal. A brief reminder: Ottawa ordered 88 F-35As in 2023 for 14.5 billion (hereinafter) US dollars. The Canadian Ministry of Defense also has estimated the F-35's operational costs for a projected 45 years in service at $54 billion.
In an article for The Globe and Mail, Michael Byers, co-director of the Vancouver Outer Space Institute, recalled that the United States holds unilateral control over the source code for F-35's mission programming. In fact, he claimed, the US could simply remotely turn off F-35s' advanced situational awareness capabilities and achieve air superiority, "perhaps with just a few keyboard strokes," Byers notes.
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Unfortunately, that's not limited to just EV's. The cool thing, though, is we can pull out a fuse to disable a new car's communication to the outside world. And with my EV in particular, I have a little extra insulation from the outside world's meddling.
The main reason my wife and I have an EV as one of our two cars is because we can charge it with our own power with decentralized solar. I wish I could make my own gasoline too. Solar provided 80% of the power my house consumed last year, including the power used to charge the EV. We drove it a little over 16K miles of home charged miles last year. With 80% of those miles coming from homemade solar, count it as 13K miles that I didn't have to buy energy for from either gas pumps or the power company.
I'm not a normal prepper trying to handle a shut off switch scenario or, a complete control type scenario like a mark of the beast. I'm more concerned with the slow boil technique (like the modern parable of slow boiling a frog). They can make our transportation and energy usage more and more expensive and a little harder and a little harder to come by, without completely cutting us off. That would pressure most people to slowly bow to the left's cult. An abrupt cut off by the left IMHO would risk the masses turning against them.
That’s the point.
Nobody can trust F35’s (or anything complex probably) given recent moves by the US administration.
Honestly watching Trudeau act like such a weak woman in his “we will still boo your anthem” speech made me feel really excited to walk into that unarmed 3 million sq mile country and take it over.
Invasions are always the wrong thing to do, but they are tempting us with their sissiness.
If he did something like rearm the Canadian population, now that would be an actual deterrent.
Oh please don’t ever give me that kind of hope and be joking about it.
People who raised it, in public, first, were the Germans.
Current buzz is in the UK.
The button might not be in Washington.
People are already calling for contract cancellations for undelivered A/C, and cancelling pending orders.
“Thats 165 million per. Sounds like we aren’t making much on that deal.”
Only a 65% mark up plus post-sale service contracts.
Well, they could buy European targets instead.
Or Russian, or Chinese J-20s!
Yeah, that’s it! They could convert to all Chinese made hardware. It’s cheap and I’m sure the Chinese would be happy to sell to them.
No, but the orders came from there. Somewhere in Hegseths team probably.
If this is true, I’m more concerned about our own security being so bad that the Chinese penetrate it and turn off everybody’s F-35s. The rest is ludicrous hyper-ventilating.
Such a diode would have to be outside of the enclosure since all military electronics is EMP hardened. (Its the enclosure)
“Just like electric cars.”
And any newer car that has one of those “remote assistance links”
If they an unlock you doors, they can disable the engine.
Funny. How long between concept and implementation in complex military hardware?
I think Alberta should become the 51st US state. Great conservative population.
Count me in as well.
Say Canada commits A/C to defend Ukraine (or the Baltics, Finland, Poland). And Trump makes a deal with Putin.
So, fifty days from concept to modified hardware? Are you serious?
Implementation was there long since, but now the US has proved its willing to do it, TO HELP PUTIN.
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