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You did read the article saying the US is not supplying "software updates" to the F16s and the planes themselves fly just fine, right?

I think the comment is in reaction to the F35 ones above it. Without activated software, these are bricks.

And no country wants to wake up to a set of bricks when they really need warplanes all of a sudden.

A plane without up to date countermeasures is not fit for purpose. They will be ineffective or even unusable in weeks.