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I guarantee UAV's are not running XP or Windows 2000. The government has heard of things called RTOS.
by iopuy 15y ago
I guarantee UAV's are not running XP or Windows 2000. The government has heard of things called RTOS.
- bostonvaulter2 15y agoBut the computers controlling the Drones seem to be running some sort of Windows variant. There's no real need to control the drones directly if you can control the computer that controls the drones.
- bronson 15y agoI wouldn't be so sure about that. http://gcn.com/articles/1998/07/13/software-glitches-leave-navy-smart-ship-dead-in-the-water.aspx http://gcn.com/articles/1998/07/13/software-glitches-leave-n... And, have you seen all the computers necessary to carry out a drone operation? I guarantee you not all of them are running an RTOS. Probably not even all of them onboard the drone.
- iopuy 15y agoThe article is from 1998. Please forgive me if I don't see it as framing the situation of today.
- lucasjung 15y agoMilitary acquisitions take a long time. To give one example, I know for a fact that there are airplanes flying right now that use DEC Alphas to control their weapons systems. Those planes first came into use in the early 2000's. An older version of that plane is still in use, and will be for several more years; you don't even want to know what it's using.
- VladRussian 15y ago>I guarantee UAV's are not running XP or Windows 2000. The government has heard of things called RTOS. Of course. There is Windows NT for _that_ : http://www.theragens.com/misc/MR%20-%20Windows%20NT%20Real-Time.htm http://www.theragens.com/misc/MR%20-%20Windows%20NT%20Real-T...
- daeken 15y agoSoft real-time systems aren't used for things like drones. Look at things like INTEGRITY from Green Hills for that sort of task: http://www.ghs.com/customers/bae_herti.html http://www.ghs.com/customers/bae_herti.html
- rjbond3rd 15y agoIf the drones are not running Windows, then why are they following virus removal instructions on Kaspersky's site?
- iopuy 15y agoThe operating system the drones run and the control software are different. A RTOS does not run on the desktop as XP is not used on UAVs.
- ArbitraryLimits 15y agoThe UAV itself will have a computer running a commercial RTOS. The computer on the ground which the operator sits and and uses to interact with the UAV is almost certainly a Windows box. And as someone else said, the military's way of securing Windows machines like those has traditionally been not to hook them up to a network in the first place, instead of installing anti-virus software. That actually worked really well until portable USB devices came along. The result is that the military is only now getting up to speed on securing these types of computers; it's not that they're dumb about computers, it's that in the past they dealt with the threat operationally rather than technically.