Comment by general1465

> Solid take. Do modern day battleships have programmers re-writing core OS components?

They do and they don't.

For example F16 pilots in Ukraine were unable to fly combat missions because USA stopped help during March 2025. Jamming pods are making Russian radars less effective and they were not getting software updates from USA.

So programmers are not on the frontline, but they are still absolutely vital part of such an old plane like F16 is. Now consider F35 which is very reliant on the software.