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Re:US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet by bob1029 on Monday September 18, 2023 @01:19PM (#37559043)
Some Hollywood points in this direction. E.g. the Behind Enemy Lines ejection scene.

Seems like a pretty good idea to self-destruct the most sensitive hardware (computers/chips/storage modules/etc) if recovery of the aircraft is no longer feasible.

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Re:US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet by HeyLaughingBoy on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:15PM (#37560656)
> self-destruct

Ooh, yeah. Let's add even more failure modes!

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Re:US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet by actionfromafar on Monday September 18, 2023 @06:09PM (#37562779)
For drones it makes sense. Drones could boot up with all config in RAM so as to be completely devoid of mission parameters once power is cut.
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Re:US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet by HeyLaughingBoy on Monday September 18, 2023 @08:28PM (#37564200)
Sure. There's no way that in combat you could experience a temporary power loss. Nope, that could never happen.
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Re:US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet by actionfromafar on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:17PM (#37572177)
If your drone has power loss during flight, I think you have other problems.
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Re:US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet by HeyLaughingBoy on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:48PM (#37572659)
Pay close attention to the word "temporary." In normal flight, it's not that unusual for flight instruments to have to be rebooted because of unexpected glitches.
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