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Europe and Canada are eyeing alternatives to American-made fighter jets. Here’s why
Questions are mounting in Canada and in Europe over whether big-ticket purchases of high-end U.S. weaponry are still a wise strategic choice.
BERLIN (AP) — Questions are mounting in Canada and in Europe over whether big-ticket purchases of high-end U.S. weaponry, such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, are still a wise strategic choice for Western countries worried about their investment in U.S. defense technology. As Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, it’s become clear that Eastern European NATO members still have vast stores of Soviet-era weapons in their stockpiles that weren’t interoperable with Western weaponry. But the Trump administration’s recent stance on the Russia-Ukraine war has fueled fears that Washington may have similar ways to coerce buyers in a future fight — such as by embedding a hypothetical “kill switch” in the F-35’s millions of lines of programming.
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