Has not received U.S. drone aircraft from cyber attacks, the mysterious virus has infected a computer operator for this type of aircraft that is a cornerstone of the so-called war on terrorism.
Was quoted by Times of London for the U.S. military as saying that the virus did not cause any damage to the vehicle collision or the like, and continues to the planes of the type of Predator and Reaper are functions such as the air strike on Yemen for more than a week, which killed Anwar Awlaki al-Qaeda.
However, the technical experts at the Ministry of Defense has not been able to remove the virus, according to the magazine "Wired", which reported the news, said the source of the technical magazine that they are working to remove the virus, which is re-emerging again despite a belief that is not dangerous.
The newspaper pointed out that with the presence of the drone at the forefront of modern war, where is the training of more pilots to steer Americans, the fact that the mysterious virus that appears with each push of a button in their duties is a source of serious concern.
This is not the first time under which these aircraft in danger, I discovered two years ago, U.S. forces in Iraq that describes the rebels used the program there is a price $ 26 only to penetrate the video is encrypted, which re-broadcast on unmanned aircraft to earthly observers.
In raids on the rebel strongholds of U.S. forces discovered that these tapes have been monitoring the planes on the notebook.
The newspaper said that news of this virus comes at a time of increased adoption of the U.S. military to these aircraft, believed to have about 7000 of them, mostly designed to carry out intelligence.
It is believed that this aircraft was killed in Pakistan alone, more than 2,000 fighters and civilians in areas near the Afghan border, where Pakistan's army also dare to send troops there.
Since close to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula of the U.S. bombing of a passenger plane Christmas Eve in 2009, increased American military operations of these aircraft in the area of the new rules were built in secret locations, including an air base built in the island of Socotra, located between Yemen and Somalia.
It is noteworthy that the virus known as "Ki-Lugar" or "Monitor Keyboard", recorded orders entered by the pilots to remotely guide the unmanned aircraft.
Military analysts say that a virus infection may have been accidentally entered the common systems of these aircraft, but some said that the possibility of a security threat, where not exclude the possibility of transmission of information to a third party.
Source: Times