kblood
26-01-2008, 09:34 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303695.html
Future Combat Systems, or FCS, is a roughly $200 billion weapons program that military officials consider the most thorough modernization of the Army since World War II. It all depends on the software, under development by the Army's battalion of contractors, led by Boeing. The software is intended to do what military commanders have until now only dreamed about: give soldiers the power to communicate through a wireless network in near real time with hovering drones; remotely control robots to defuse bombs; fire laser-guided missiles at enemies on the move; and conduct a video teleconference in a tank rumbling about 40 mph in the haze of battle.
They already are aware of the kind of problems it could create if the system was hacked in anyway, or got a virus, worm, trojan etc.
One day the US might be going, "Sorry for bombing your country back to the stone ages, our computers malfunctioned, and found it a threat to global peace." :eek:
Still, I guess the system does sound kind of cool.
Future Combat Systems, or FCS, is a roughly $200 billion weapons program that military officials consider the most thorough modernization of the Army since World War II. It all depends on the software, under development by the Army's battalion of contractors, led by Boeing. The software is intended to do what military commanders have until now only dreamed about: give soldiers the power to communicate through a wireless network in near real time with hovering drones; remotely control robots to defuse bombs; fire laser-guided missiles at enemies on the move; and conduct a video teleconference in a tank rumbling about 40 mph in the haze of battle.
They already are aware of the kind of problems it could create if the system was hacked in anyway, or got a virus, worm, trojan etc.
One day the US might be going, "Sorry for bombing your country back to the stone ages, our computers malfunctioned, and found it a threat to global peace." :eek:
Still, I guess the system does sound kind of cool.