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Originally Posted by babsy Yeah, it's definitely possible. Modern fighter jets can reset seperate subsystems midflight. It's very literally an on-off switch for the computer. The software controlling planes is all compartmentalised off, so you can, as an example, reset only the weapons software, or the radar software or whatever. I'm not certain what happens if you need to reset the make-the-plane-fucking-fly software, although I'm going to wager if you just level the jet off and hit the switch, it won't drop out of the sky.

Fighter jets are not "planes" in the sense that they do not "glide" sans power. A jet with engines "off" is like a rock. It will fall out of the sky straightaway. There ain't no "bringin' 'er home on a prayer". A jet is basically just THRUST and CONTROL SURFACES... in other words... a MISSILE.