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Nuclear consent switch on an F-16 Fighting Falcon (thelemmy.club)
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[-] ZJBlank@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago

Gives them a way to jettison the bomb in an emergency, like before a forced landing or crash. A flaming pile of wrecked airplane is bad enough without a nuke also being on fire

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