You are forgetting the B-24 Liberator. You might think "oh Ford made another aeroplane" but you would be misguided.

The TPMS is wirelessly connected to the CANbus, many ECU boxes can be wirelessly reprogrammed , the dash cluster is on the CANbus and might have a bluetooth connection. All options.

CAN is entirely open. You just need a way to read the bitstream. The data bits can be encrypted but most cars have simple high/lows that…

Hell yeah. Re-engineing the gave C-5 that awful air-frame a new lease on life (and arguably saved strategic lift).

http://www.afa.org/magazine/Jan20…


Anyway, here is the AV week article about the b-52 re-engineing you should also be reading

http://aviationweek.com/defense/b-52-r…

Easy. Any active TacTom has already been spoofed by the time it gets there. It's subsonic and not stealthy. Any near peer in a blue water naval engagement will know its there. 10 seconds from launch it's flying toward an imaginary destroyer. In terminal mode rest of the passive TacToms are in the dark. Brraaptt.…

Old News. This concept has been around for a while and Darpa isn't the only group working on this concept. Actually "motherships" have done this already - the USS Jimmy Carter for example.

I guess it would be wrong to criticize an OEM which fired most of its experienced engineers after the 1997 merger, sold off most of its manufacturing capability, doesn't own the proprietary data on it's 787 wing box because the Japanese designed it, couldn't manage it's supply chain across the world, couldn't ensure…