I’ve seen a few articles now that US fighter jets have kill switches in them, so the US could just render them useless for anyone they’ve sold them to.
Is this true? It sounds insane to me, I’ve always assumed that countries that buy these jets have full control over them. It’s a gaping hole in your defence if you don’t.
It’s only a hole in your defense if you need to defend against the country that sold you the hardware. Ideally, you try and stay friends with them.
Or you could just get your engineers to remove the kill switch. 🤷🏻♂️