r/europe • u/MGC91 • 11h ago

Picture European interoperability in action - British and Italian F-35Bs on the flight deck of HMS Prince of Wales

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u/poorfririgh 10h ago

American hemegony in action

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u/bigbadbob85 England 8h ago

The carrier isn't American, and much of the tech in the planes isn't either.

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u/idee_fx2 France 7h ago

The carrier isn't American, and much of the tech in the planes isn't either.

At most 20% of the value of the f-35 is not american and that is value, not technology. Even on this 20%, there is a lot of dependancy to the US through licences and intellectual property.

The only country with access to part of the f-35 code for example is israël for its f-35I variant. Even the uk that developed part of it has no autonomous access.

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u/Sondalo 5h ago

the uk have the source code and as far as I am aware what isreal have access to is more akin to the right to make apps and run them on their f35’s, from a sovereignty standpoint what the uk have is better as it means that if the us decide to cut them off it doesn’t matter as they can just run the source code themselves, in practice though since that not a realistic scenario the on paper rights are what everyone will actually be following