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Canada is Worried All Its F-35 Can Be Disabled With a Push of a Button in Washington: How Realistic It is
Defense Express ^ | 3/7/2025 | defense express

Posted on 03/10/2025 11:48:36 AM PDT by buwaya

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To: lgjhn23
But yeah, the same holds true for our newer vehices as well, especially EVs

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.

41 posted on 03/10/2025 12:13:13 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: HKMk23

That’s the point.

Nobody can trust F35’s (or anything complex probably) given recent moves by the US administration.


42 posted on 03/10/2025 12:13:37 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

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.


43 posted on 03/10/2025 12:15:15 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: cgbg

Oh please don’t ever give me that kind of hope and be joking about it.


44 posted on 03/10/2025 12:16:11 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: cmj328

People who raised it, in public, first, were the Germans.
Current buzz is in the UK.


45 posted on 03/10/2025 12:17:28 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

The button might not be in Washington.


46 posted on 03/10/2025 12:22:54 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: HKMk23

People are already calling for contract cancellations for undelivered A/C, and cancelling pending orders.


47 posted on 03/10/2025 12:25:08 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: clee1

“Thats 165 million per. Sounds like we aren’t making much on that deal.”

Only a 65% mark up plus post-sale service contracts.


48 posted on 03/10/2025 12:25:35 PM PDT by TexasGator (11.'1I1.I'')
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To: buwaya

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.


49 posted on 03/10/2025 12:26:29 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: GingisK

No, but the orders came from there. Somewhere in Hegseths team probably.


50 posted on 03/10/2025 12:26:31 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

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.


51 posted on 03/10/2025 12:27:12 PM PDT by Thud
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To: econjack
I could envision an electronic pulse, like an EMP, burning a diode in multiple aircraft,

Such a diode would have to be outside of the enclosure since all military electronics is EMP hardened. (Its the enclosure)

52 posted on 03/10/2025 12:27:31 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: HIDEK6

“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.


53 posted on 03/10/2025 12:28:45 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: buwaya
given recent moves by the US administration

Funny. How long between concept and implementation in complex military hardware?

54 posted on 03/10/2025 12:29:23 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
"Nice people inhabit Canada, a beautiful country, even is some of them are bonkers liberal."

I think Alberta should become the 51st US state. Great conservative population.

55 posted on 03/10/2025 12:29:53 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: MotorCityBuck

Count me in as well.


56 posted on 03/10/2025 12:29:55 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: rdcbn1

Say Canada commits A/C to defend Ukraine (or the Baltics, Finland, Poland). And Trump makes a deal with Putin.


57 posted on 03/10/2025 12:30:16 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

So, fifty days from concept to modified hardware? Are you serious?


59 posted on 03/10/2025 12:31:12 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Implementation was there long since, but now the US has proved its willing to do it, TO HELP PUTIN.


60 posted on 03/10/2025 12:32:49 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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