The National Security Agency (ANB) was concerned with the ability of Russia and China, as well as to some extent Iran and the DPRK “Land” American fighters of the fifth generation F-35 Lightning II without a single shot, writes Popular Mechanics.
In the US Defense Division, it is afraid that the world’s increasingly multipolar world leads to the emergence of foreign cybercriminals, whose actions can endanger the US weapons.
According to the head of the cyber security control, Jobing Defense, who leads the edition of Breaking Defense, the American military, spending 20 years in Afghanistan, did not come across a high-tech opponent, and now “don’t even think about how their ships are, Airplanes and ground systems will work without a computer. “But the nearest opponents have the opportunity to use us when we do something wrong,” he said.
Popular Mechanics notes that “almost all American weapons, with the exception of small arms and weapons serviced by the crew (for example, machine guns), includes embedded computer systems.” “Computers add functionality, including fire management, navigation and communication. Computers are often linked to large, sometimes covering the entire globe, networks that are able to give orders, collect data, report on the appearance of the enemy and even coordinate the attack,” writes the publication .
According to the magazine, the use of US opponents of computer vulnerabilities may fail the American ships, airplanes and satellites. “Anb wants the military-industrial complex to seriously treat vulnerabilities in cyberspace,” the publication writes.
In August, Breaking Defense reported that the integrated network of operatingal data Integrated Network (ODIN) F-35 Lightning II fighters has advantages over the autonomous logistics information system Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS). One of the main differences in the second one is called the use of cloud technologies in Odin, allowing developers to promptly add software updates. The disadvantages of the new system are called its big openness, which theoretically increases the risks of unauthorized access. The publication says that, probably, the United States and the United Kingdom will benefit the use of ODIN in front of other “resistant allies.”