Breaking: RAF grounds F-35 fleet after loss of US-operated data services. Netherlands, Denmark and Norway confirm similar groundings. Emergency NATO session called.
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@rahul_blr · 13 Jan 2026 · 11:05
Every defence procurement committee on earth opened a new agenda item this morning and the item is one sentence long: "what in our inventory has a switch we do not own?"
I do software. The answer is going to be "almost everything" and it is going to take four years to find out.
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13 January 2026 · in the recordEurope grounds its stealth fleetAvailability across the allied F-35 force falls by more than half in seventy-two hours. The United Kingdom brings forensic logs to Brussels showing the severance was administrative…