As an actual security person with intimate knowledge this person like the other media is asking a naive question. The right reasoning is this: How many CPU controllers are in the fighter that could disable it for how many uses. A typical automobile has on the order of 100. Every one may have a kill switch provided by more than one agent either of the hardware, firmware, or software with similarly uncountable ways to trigger. How many nation states can kill an F<whatever>. We have known for years how to secure this stuff with high Common Criteria levels but rarely do so in practice. E.g., foreign neutral observers in every aspect of design, manufacturing, support, etc, etc. I participated in securing stuff in the White House. Everywhere, in every large organization, there are forces that seek to secure electronic assets and those who desire to have the power themselves and thus weaken the security. And there is always "the pistol to your head" attack where a legit support person with the rights to modify some aspects of some electronics is simply there with a quick switch whether it be a passcode to enter manufacturing mode or a bit of hardware (chip or module replacement). A "pistol to your head," so well demonstrated by the daily demonstrations of Trump and Putin, works great and is cheaper by far.

I would much prefer kamakazi drones to 'manned anything' because these can be sealed for a mission with relatively simple suicide switches if the drone is somehow detected to not be doing its appropriate job. Same for cell phones. Burner phones are like drones in this regard. Just watch who is building them...while they are building them...and secure your people against "pistol to the head" attacks. Very expensive. I personally like the most what I wrote in my book Metafire, at www.metafire.com in 1995... read by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and still read today. Pre-locate nuclear bombs in cities around the world to use to keep the other bigger pistol around that might be needed to keep the littler pistols holstered. This is the security that Trump does not understand by making all of US's friends our enemies and our enemies our friends. Globalism is inescapable if we are to survive as a species, period. Fiat lies we say in human natural language, like the ones in this article, are GENOCIDE on the human race. The real truth needs to be in every person's mind and divisive lies, as George Washington wrote, need to be locked in their holsters for dreams of revenge not actual revenge. https://youtu.be/e_aAgBXAIUI?si=5MNgzCC676Z4b8Ur