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Re:Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet by javert on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:24PM (#3085725)
No. Windows boxes can communicate to an RTOS like VxWorks over a network just fine.
Re:Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet by rdl on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:53PM (#3085895)
The level of performance needed in the GCS is even less than you might think, too -- for most of the UAVs, you don't have direct flight controls -- it's more like a naval ship, where you instruct it to go to certain altitude and fly a flight path you plot on a map. Some of them have more stick/rudder style controls, mainly for landings, which are often controlled by another operator physically at the launch/recovery site (and who might be a contractor vs. soldier/airman).
Re:Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet by javert on Friday October 07, 2011 @05:09PM (#3085972)
it's more like a naval ship, where you instruct it to go to certain altitude and fly a flight path you plot on a map.

Woah, what Navy has ships like that? Bowser's navy?

But yah, I know what you're talking about.