Thursday, March 16, 2006

UK Warns U.S. Over Jet Software Code



Matt Chapman writes on vnunet.com:

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 defence 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.

More here.

posted by Fergie @ 3/16/2006 09:13:00 AM

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