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It was little noticed in the US at the time, but the US and Elon Musk's Starlink turned off all support for US weapons systems in Ukraine during Russia's offensive to retake Kursk. The entire world took notice however. A weapons system - whether HIMARs or F-35s - comes with a forty year tail of support, from software updates to ammo. And the entire planet took note of how capricious Republicans are. Obviously, no nation can be put in a position where they rely on American weapons systems when one of the major parties in the US is so willing to turn off support and let soldiers die when defending their country. Europe, Canada, and Asia are all pivoting to domestic systems now. The European arms industry in particular is absolutely booming right now. I'm sure Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, BAE, General Dynamics and so on are absolutely pissed. That is trillions in lost revenue for them. 
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It was noticed here at the time and it will destroy Starlink.  Boeing, Lockheed etc rushed to assure everyone that there is no kill switch in their planes or weapons.

The world wants to decouple from American defense weapons (and tech) but realistically it won't happen.  However, Starlink is cooked.  And Musk's shenanigans with MITRE and CVE will chop up the current organized system of computer hardware and software to multiple quasi-interoperable systems.  Too bad.[/quote]
What are the European public traded defense companies that replaces, LMT, NOC, and RTX?[/quote]

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