Switzerland will take a decision by June to abandon the Patriot contract after the US is failing to deliver on the contract and started diverting F-35 funds towards its own Patriot restocking.
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"All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/f-35s-have-failed-to-hit-readiness-marks-for-six-years-gao-says -
“Oh, we murdered 100 kids?RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116316847500488516
“Oh, we murdered 100 kids? Oh, that's unfortunate.
We just had some stale data in our Palantir Project Maven data lake that was used by our ‘highly accelerated, software-supported targeting process’. We'll clear the cache sometimes.”
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"All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/f-35s-have-failed-to-hit-readiness-marks-for-six-years-gao-saysEnough is enough. It's time to pull the
.After the F-35 drama, the tariff insults, public mockery by Trump of the
president, the technical inferiority of the Patriot missiles compared to the SAMP/T, 
invasion threats, the Pentagon's theft of European paid weapons destined to Ukraine to make up for the failures in Iran, and now the theft of money from the F-35 payments towards to patriot restocking…should no longer be buying 
weapons.
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Good statement by the @eff on the Anthropic case that deserves our support.Good statement by the @eff on the Anthropic case that deserves our support.
"Anthropic is asking courts to block the designation, arguing that the First Amendment does not permit the government to coerce a private actor to rewrite its code to serve government ends.”
Regardless of how you feel about AI, this case is about much more than that and could pose a huge risk to cryptography and privacy software in the future if won by the US Department of War.
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"All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/f-35s-have-failed-to-hit-readiness-marks-for-six-years-gao-saysSwatch mocks the US tariffs on Swiss goods, quickly selling out a 1*39* CHF “What if ... Tariffs?” watch
https://www.swatch.com/en-ch/what-if-tariffs-so34z106/SO34Z106.html
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"All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/f-35s-have-failed-to-hit-readiness-marks-for-six-years-gao-saysSwiss Population a few days ago:
67% deems the cost increase in the procurement of 36 F-35A fighter jets unacceptable. Amid rising costs, 45% of respondents would prefer to withdraw from the F-35 agreement
https://www.ipsos.com/en-ch/swiss-against-spending-more-f-35-dealGovernment today:
"Switzerland is offering to buy more American weapons”https://www.ft.com/content/a470c79c-9d38-453e-b3d1-3a743d7d3c9c
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"All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/f-35s-have-failed-to-hit-readiness-marks-for-six-years-gao-saysTwo thirds of the Swiss population support the government in not giving in on US extortion to lower the arbitrary 39% of tariffs on Swiss goods.
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"All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/f-35s-have-failed-to-hit-readiness-marks-for-six-years-gao-saysSwiss politicians across parties are seeking to cancel an order of three dozen F-35A fighter jets after President Donald Trump imposed some of the world’s harshest levies on the country.
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"All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/f-35s-have-failed-to-hit-readiness-marks-for-six-years-gao-saysAmericans will be paying a 39% surtax on Swiss products.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/switzerland-slammed-with-39%25-tariff-rate-in-trump-trade-blitz/89768316Other tariff rates: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/further-modifying-the-reciprocal-tariff-rates/
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"All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/f-35s-have-failed-to-hit-readiness-marks-for-six-years-gao-saysSwiss population has turned against the F-35, the “ejectable seat demonstrator”
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"All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/f-35s-have-failed-to-hit-readiness-marks-for-six-years-gao-saysVery good article about why it doesn't even matter whether the F-35 has a kill switch or not.
Without access to the maintenance network, the same result would be achieved but with a small delay.
Especially more advanced key features require access to the ALIS/ODIN cloud-based system.
https://www.twz.com/air/you-dont-need-a-kill-switch-to-hobble-exported-f-35s
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"All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/f-35s-have-failed-to-hit-readiness-marks-for-six-years-gao-says"All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/f-35s-have-failed-to-hit-readiness-marks-for-six-years-gao-says