I'm also not sure I believe that. You don't want to make it so your plane can be bricked remotely because that would be a huge fucking vulnerability to your plane. EVERYTHING in an airplane should always have a manual option.
Fly by wire planes probably do have complicated software, but I knew some people who "modernized" the A-10 Warthogs and they left in the manual controls and bypassed them. Not sure if true for F-15s or any other plane but I'm sure they get at least some goodys
I'm also not sure I believe that. You don't want to make it so your plane can be bricked remotely because that would be a huge fucking vulnerability to your plane. EVERYTHING in an airplane should always have a manual option.
Fly by wire planes probably do have complicated software, but I knew some people who "modernized" the A-10 Warthogs and they left in the manual controls and bypassed them. Not sure if true for F-15s or any other plane but I'm sure they get at least some goodys