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UK Demands Sourcecode for Strike Fighters
An anonymous reader writes ""The UK has warned America that it will cancel its £12bn order for the Joint Strike Fighter if the US does not hand over full access to the computer software code that controls the jets"
Lord Drayson, minister for defense procurement, told the The Daily Telegraph that the planes were useless without control of the software as they could effectively be "switched off" by the Americans without warning."
Why does Australia need such high power weaponry anyway? When was the last time they were attacked by anybody? Are the kiwis that much of a threat they AU has to arm itself with the latest in sophisticated weaponry?
It seems to me that all this expensive aircraft is nothing but a transfer of funds from the pockets of the AU taxpayers into the pocket of the military industrial complex.
evil is as evil does
So the United States IS a warmonger...
When all is said and done, nothing changes...
It's entirely bullshit. It's entirely political posturing so the Brits can get as much US tech as possible. They will be getting plenty from us, they're just bitching because they want it all. You know the way it goes: Beg for $20 from dad when you only really want $10...
Disclaimer: I know wayyyy too much about the JSF program.