The European Commission president says increasing defense spending is necessary in "an era of rearmament." A European summit on defense and Ukraine is planned this week amid tense transatlantic relations.
I have not yet heard of a single case report of US-sourced military jet becoming remotely disabled.
Also note: Iran has been flying F-14 jets which the Islamic Revolution took over from the Shah’s regime.
When a country buys military aircraft, they demand extensive knowledge of the system they are buying, and demand ability to independently perform maintenance.
If they are prudent, they will review all its wireless reception and transmission capabilities, possibly on their own. There may still be a possibility for a logic bomb somewhere, but a logic bomb in flight softtware would ordinarily mean two things:
the industrial company involved pays obscene compensations
nobody will purchase aircraft from the country involved
These are pretty big disincentives.
P.S. Cryptography: one can likely configure an aircraft so that it won’t accept a message through its data link system, unless the message authenticates and decrypts. Subsequently, one can change keys to no longer match a compromised ally’s keys. As a result, direct data links would no longer be possible with planes of that compromised ally. So introducing a specially crafted message into a military plane would likely be hard.
Thanks!
I’m basing all my stuff only on hearsay, so I actually have no clue, and always wondered, how this way of acquiring defense weapons can work out, if I have to rely on my salesman in case I actually need them.
I hope you’re correct, but that gives me at least some calm - thanks.
I have not yet heard of a single case report of US-sourced military jet becoming remotely disabled.
Also note: Iran has been flying F-14 jets which the Islamic Revolution took over from the Shah’s regime.
When a country buys military aircraft, they demand extensive knowledge of the system they are buying, and demand ability to independently perform maintenance.
If they are prudent, they will review all its wireless reception and transmission capabilities, possibly on their own. There may still be a possibility for a logic bomb somewhere, but a logic bomb in flight softtware would ordinarily mean two things:
These are pretty big disincentives.
P.S. Cryptography: one can likely configure an aircraft so that it won’t accept a message through its data link system, unless the message authenticates and decrypts. Subsequently, one can change keys to no longer match a compromised ally’s keys. As a result, direct data links would no longer be possible with planes of that compromised ally. So introducing a specially crafted message into a military plane would likely be hard.
Thanks!
I’m basing all my stuff only on hearsay, so I actually have no clue, and always wondered, how this way of acquiring defense weapons can work out, if I have to rely on my salesman in case I actually need them.
I hope you’re correct, but that gives me at least some calm - thanks.