U.S. Army investigators have recovered flight recording devices from two helicopters that collided last week in Interior Alaska, killing three soldiers and injuring another.
The AH-64 Apache helicopters collided April 27 about 50 miles east of Healy while returning from training at an aerial gunnery range in the Donnelly Training Area southeast of Fairbanks.
Wouldn't those things be a security risk during a war? I would think that the Army wouldn't want an adversary getting their commie mitts on a flight recorder during a war. Even moreso if they have cockpit voice recorders.
You NEED to know what went wrong in flight. Any technical problem can spread throughout the entire fleet.
ReplyDeleteThere should be ways to encrypt the data so that foreign powers can't easily hack the info.
Everything in the defense related publications suggests the CVR/CDR units installed in military aircraft are robustly encrypted. They need the recorders on many platforms to comply with FAA and EU aviation regulators requirements. I would also expect that the units in question are probably quickly removable for known strike/risk missions.
ReplyDeleteBy it's very nature, encrypted can be de-encrypted. Nothing is 100% hack-proof ...
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