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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."
Surely they meant the United States. America is a continent.
The UK has warned Microsoft that it will cancel its £12bn order for Windows Vista if it does not hand over full access to the computer software code that controls the operating system.
you are trying to tell me that software is limiting a fighter so it can drop at subsonic, but not at supersonic speeds????? I am not an engineer, but somehow I doubt that.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Yeah. Israeli was developing improved F-16 (Lavi -project) and US pressured hard to get program cancelled, so GE could sell F-16's to Israel. Program was scrapped, and Israeli sold all know-how of Lavi -procject to -- Chinese. Chinese J-10 is now precessor of Lavi, and ironical it is, they can thank US gov't for their front-line fighterjet. Call Europeans morons as you wish, but JCS hindsight isn't 20/20 either lol.
Would you have rather not gotten any of the money?
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
What kind of crack are you smoking? There is no way that the war would have been won without America and Canada's help. The Japs would have finished overrunning Austraila in short order and eventually Hilter would have succeeded in cutting of the British Isles and starving them out.