[Yo-Yo]

It's a UK based company making bare circuit boards to exact specification of the designers.

The company isn't even putting components on the PC boards.

There is no opportunity to either steal technology from the F-35, or to add nefarious things to the F-35, like an "off switch."

Don't get your panties in a bunch.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

To a Chinese design that may well be designed with a means of spying on/disabling the aircraft?

[flatpickingflyer]

<> This is true. Bare boards are pretty much a tech commodity that can be moved from CM to CM fairly easily. Our company does it all the time. However, we make appliances with razor thin cost margin, which is the reason all our electronics come from Asia.

[Tallguy]

I’d like to X-ray a random sample of those PCB’s to see if there’s any thin circuitry inside them. Technically possible given the Chinese lead in flat screen LCD displays.

[fuzzylogic]

Agree - you have to differentiate between the internals of an IC and making a PCB. One is far more verifiable than the other.

I’m not concerned.

[Lazamataz]

t's a UK based company making bare circuit boards to exact specification of the designers. The company isn't even putting components on the PC boards. There is no opportunity to either steal technology from the F-35, or to add nefarious things to the F-35, like an "off switch." Don't get your panties in a bunch.

Do not underestimate the Chinese.

Their kung-fu is strong.

[az_gila]

It's a UK based company making bare circuit boards to exact specification of the designers.

The company isn't even putting components on the PC boards.

There is no opportunity to either steal technology from the F-35, or to add nefarious things to the F-35, like an “off switch.”

Don't get your panties in a bunch.

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What would be much more interesting is who controls the software that resides in the chips on the PCB...