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Canada discreetly puts money down on 14 additional F-35s (www.cbc.ca)
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Ottawa has started to make payments for key components for 14 additional U.S.-built F-35s, even as the Carney government has been reviewing future fighter-jet purchases in the context of trade tensions with Washington, sources have told CBC News.

The money for these 14 aircraft is in addition to the contract for a first order of 16 F-35s, which will start being delivered to the Canadian Armed Forces at the end of the year.

According to sources, the new expenses are related to the purchase of so-called “long-lead items,” which are parts that must be ordered well in advance of the delivery of a fully assembled aircraft.

Canada had to make these expenditures to maintain its place in the long-term delivery schedule and avoid being replaced by other buyers in the queue, sources said.

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[–] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Anything can be in the firmware, there's no reason the payload signal has to be processed at the same point in the signal chain as everything else. And I'm not saying that it needs to be a complete fly-by-wire system, just sufficient to be able to ground the craft, which seems trivial to me - all you'd need to do is to just stop processing all signals on the bus.

I can 100% believe that the consortium of corrupt liars and incompetents that make purchasing decisions could absolutely miss this - either on accident or on purpose. Where do you derive your unshakable faith in leaders?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Again, you're claiming that every single country in NATO missed this. All of them.

    That's insane. If you're still pushing this line of reasoning I have nothing else to say to you. I can only assume you also believe that COVID 19 was a Canadian Military psy-op, the moon landings were faked, and that lizardmen from the hollow earth secretly control all the world governments.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago*

    An even more absurd argument would be to think that every state in NATO, when combined, was incapable of missing backdoors. As if when you get enough imperial forces together, suddenly they become omniscient. Perfectly infallible. Give me a break.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Intel Management Engine is a well known backdoor that is present in every single Intel CPU/motherboard and it is literally all over all of NATO. People said that didn't exist until exploits started popping up, years later, in devices every single consumer has easy, convenient, 24 hour access to.

    NATO was built on the understanding that the US could be relied upon to act in the interests of NATO as a whole. I do not think that the threat from US has been adequately considered by other NATO countries until now.

    If you don't see how opaque firmware blobs which could potentially contain literally anything could have been an underestimated threat by NATO countries (all of which, by the way, are basically just US client states), then I suspect you're rather closer to delusional thinking than I am.

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