Possibly but UK Naval capabilities are vastly more independent than its Ground and Aerial capabilities. It wouldn't be unreasonable for the UK to complete this project scope without assistance.

No, absolutely not. I work in Defence and Europe will rollover.
NATO will likely become a pale version of itself.
However expect significant change in foreign policy. All European media will sound the alarms that Europe needs arms and unity.

The premises is they are making 2k. Using them to see if they are worth accelerating into larger production cycles.

Ukraine needs defences to drones but they also need to produce what is useful. Ukraine has alot of projects going on all at once.

Someone finally bought Winrar

Because European arms are coming. But it's going to take time to ramp up. So re-armement is trying to manage both having weapons now and having Euro weapons later. It's unfortunate but needed

The idea is UK purchases software and monitors it to help vs Russia possibly rigging it...

Aren't they just checking out what they bought?

British F-35 use British Electronics and access to computer systems from London.
So the F-35 fleet is insulated, not that this should mean we should support F-35 programmes and should aim for more European frames.

They are lying through their teeth, they were trained in Russia before setting off and were informed. They are just in captivity and complying.

Technical difficulties are the worst, I will pray for you its the cheaper parts.

That is what twitter is now.
Don't engage and look through the glass at the animals.