YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A PLANE
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
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Hard to find hardware that can run it tho 
seems hard for the US military too, so what chance do we have?
It runs on an F-16 if you're OK with 720p
F35 LARP Drones!
How much time until the simulation nerds use this?
I would, and I'm tired of pretending I wouldn't 
or would I . . . . ?
Data processing on the plane systems will be a big important thing I recon. All that sensor data which makes modern planes so advanced needs to be processed. Turning raw signals into identifiable objects of concern then acting on them.
If this report is accurate, then this data could be used to degrade the F-35 stealth capabilities.
Even just having the code will allow you to know the specs of the sensors on the thing. That alone is useful.
Plus think about little things like actuator controls, power controls and so on. You can get a real good idea of the hardware specs of modern devices by looking at their code.
unless you find some absolutely picturesque type of bug, it's probably not that useful outside of reverse engineering, so what if a rocket approaching from that precise angle will be invisible or cause cascading failure of avionics? you can't use that at those speeds
- With 375 TB you probably are going to find picturesque bugs
- The angular resolutions and fields of sensors are highly protected. It's not going to be something like hitting a precise angle and boom, you win. It's going to be something like "within this angular range the resolution is X" thereby giving resistance engineers an understanding of whether their own systems are capable in what scenario, how to test and improve them. Little tidbits of info like that added up will give you a valuable picture.
And I'm just talking about the real basic stuff here. Who knows what kinda shit is in the 375 TB.
The F-35’s are networked. Having the source code could enable you to install Bonzai Buddy for the pilot.
All F35s get "tractor beamed" into the cool zone with weapons disabled. Better yet reprogrammed to attack their own base.
Sounds like a shitty movie I would watch
Waiting for the FOSS-35 fork on github.
LibreF-35
LOOK YOU WOULDNT BELIEVE THE STUPID SHIT THEY WERE SAYING ON THE WAR THUNDER FORUMS
Do tell!
1.5 trillion lines of code
1.49 trillion of those lines are just for the hover takeoff
Imagine asking marines what they want in a multirole jet and not being prepared to send them outside to do exercise when they insist on VTOL.
$598 million price tag? Sold on the open market. Shit, with that kinda price tag, we might have to pool our cash.
DO NOT ASK IF ITS AVAILABLE IF ITS STILL LISTED ITS STILL AVAILABLE
$598 MILLION FIRM, I KNOW WHAT I HAVE, NO TIME WASTERS
HAVE A BLESSED DAY
PS NOT INTERESTED IN ANY TRADES
Hi, is this still available?
Im looking for a Jeep Comanche and my buddy said maybe you had one?
Is it written in javascript?
C++ or Ada, I believe
The sample shown in the link is C++, but I do remember Ada being the military jet language from my Uni days, maybe outdated now
I always wondered how the real Ada would feel about that
C++
Not much better than js but ok
They actually just use the Dwarf Fortress source code.
oh, I thought it was running on minecraft redstone
Anything other than a Twitter link or a reddit link to a Twitter link?
Yeah, I'm a little skeptical. Even that Twitter account doesn't seem to believe it's real:
To be honest, I don’t believe this is real. The marketplace/threat actor is new and doesn’t have a track record.
https://xcancel.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2039643524132474957
Can this be run on say....a Raspberry Pi?
no idea. Given it's US, it's probably bloated crap.
if (plane_is_crashing)
don't;
@Grok tell me the important parts of making the plane in the source code. No fluff. Be brutally honest
I have almost zero faith that this is real. Probably just some bullshit cooked up by Claude.
What would 375 TB of source code even contain? That’s an astronomically large amount of data as source code. Maybe there are some gigantic reference data files coming from empirical measurement?
I'm skeptical myself, but it seems that more than the f-35 source code has been leaked. If you follow through to the image in the tweet, you can see a breakdown
9TB of source code is still a lot, but maybe reasonable. My old journal repo is like 2GiB by itself and that's just one person taking notes and writing down software sketches for a decade. Nixpkgs is like 6GB or so checked out.
I guess I can imagine a bunch of embedded tool chains plus systems code, divers, and stuff adding up quick. sheesh no wonder this thing sucks.
I guess I can imagine a bunch of embedded tool chains plus systems code, divers, and stuff adding up quick. sheesh no wonder this thing sucks.
Before there was vibecoding there was outsourcing and elaborate Manhattan Project style strategies for parceling out work to untrusted foreign sweatshops such that the nature of the whole could not be determined from analysis of the specifications of any particular part.
That might partially explain how projects like this could accrue such a massive unwieldy quantities of code, since we can now see the same effect on a smaller scale with unlimited vibecoding projects.
It's a miracle anything works as well as it does and not a surprise planes keep falling out of skies in the civilian and military worlds.
One of the dumbest guys I know worked on some military aircraft source code. Think decades old codebase with low skilled software engineers from lowest-bidder defense companies. To me, this the size is believable and maybe even expected.
yea I have been in the work space of one of the overseas contractors who works for this company, it's not.. we're not doing peak cold war engineering and security anymore.
Player haters will say its fake but once I get this running on my Hilux we'll see who's laughing.
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