Another rather shocking piece of information was revealed to me yet again by a article on Wired. Apparently the drone fleet at Creech Air Force Base were infected by a virus earlier this month. More specifically it affected the cockpit of the drone. If you don't know what a drone is it is basically a remote controlled plane used for bombing and reconnaissance. According to the article General Robert Kehler announced the military is “not quite sure how that happened yet.”
The military believes this is just a coincidence a virus that entered "entered from the wild." Supposedly not directly aimed towards to the air force base itself. You'd think a random virus wouldn't manage to infect whats arguably the backbone of our military. Even "routine infections are treated as military secrets," so the fact that this particular infection has garnered so much public attention is maybe influencing the military to play it off as a meager threat.
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