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by randomcarbloke 441 days ago
What an absurd argument to justify the baseless idea.

American-made systems are present in most western developed military hardware, there might be backdoors or killswitches in any of it.

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Yes. There might be. That's the problem.
If true (The sourcing is a tad dubious?), it doesn't need to be a literal kill switch. Withholding software updates can be problematic enough.

https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/03/09/russian-media-claim...