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Originally Posted by Suhiir
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Originally Posted by shahadi
The effect of a successful hack say on the F-35s threat warning system is sufficient to doom that pilot. The microchips may have been enginnerred in a way to process a foe signal as a friend. Then, before the pilot can react or even if he or she does, the missile homes on the plane. Or, the hack chains a bank of microchips to signalthe missile, rendering the pilot doomed.
Now, imagine the subject unit is a command, control, and signal station say at brigade and the affected threat signal processors grant friend status to a foe. Bam. Now the various companies cannot share data and their effiency is horrible degraded. Havong a map and GPS does not tell a company commander where the enemy is.
The article covers such threats as a result of cyber warfare. We are not talking about EMPs jamming or any number of battlefield disruptions. The hack may have began during a simple maintenance of microchips in the threat proceesing system back state side.
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I'm afraid you (like many people) have a rather inflated opinion of what's probable with hacking.
Let's assume the F-35 threat warning system is hacked ... OK ... a single raid is blown out of the air, totally destroyed. Guess what, the next raid that goes out doesn't use the same compromised system.
IFF systems are hardly new, they've been used in aircraft for years. That doesn't render the enemy aircraft invisible to visual identification or MPADs/AA-guns.
The military isn't incapable of operating without GPS and battlefield info sharing, just less efficient. |
That reply should not have been posted. A cursory review of thw subject would have stayed your hand from pressing the "submit reply."
I'll play along and bite.
What if it's not a raid but a CAP on fleet defense. The two F-35's are 125 km out from the battle group at angels 30k. The threat is processed as a friend, that false info is relayed to the ships below. Bam.
But in our game we'd be more concerned with the lost of command and control. Now, our commanders know the enemy is out there but it does not know composition or strength. Well, in "God" view the player knows composition, strength, and position. Let's imagine a battle where the commander (player) no longer has that information. Is it possible to do so. Maybe. Let's find out. The A0 unit is lost.
But let us say the scenario occurs in 1953 before modern battlefield situation awareness as we know it today, then what occasions "God" view.
It is refreshing our services are as technical as they are today. A kid needs 50 on his or her ASVAB for the Navy and USAF while the Marines and Army only a 30.
And, our leaders both civilian and military are acutely aware of the threats of cyber warfare rather than adopting a cavalier attitude to the issue. This is really big stuff.
I framed this thread around reducing "God" view to what an individual unit can see on the map with respect to cyber war fighting. But, I could have easily chosen to make case as a result of the technical ability of militaries over the decades; i.e scenarios set in Korea, etc. Similar to what we do with purchasing units where unit capabilities are bounded by the year that gear was in use, so might "God" view.
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