The F-35 Joins The Cyber War,

it is going to carry a carry a 'cyberpod' cyberweapon,

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the future of American military airplanes, with Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps versions costing over $100 million each, the aircraft is a jack-of-some-trades designed to replace 10 older models now in use by America and its allies, the F-35 has a lot of very different-sized shoes to fill, including one in a cyberwarfare, so it’s going to do something new, carry a 'cyberpod' cyberweapon, like many new weapons systems, the cyberpod is cloaked in secrecy, which is why I posted it here as not many people especially spies read our blog, Rear Admiral Randy Mahr, a program director on the F-35, told IHS Jane's that 'industry is developing a pod that would not degrade the signature of the airplane,' this may help translation, the cyberpod is probably an external weapon that won't make the F-35 any less stealthy than it is now, so what will the new cyberpod do?

in 2010 the U.S. Navy revealed a goal develop its existing cyberweapon technologies into a 'Next Generation Jammer', made by Raytheon, the jammer fools hostile radar systems by receiving those signals, then sending back false ones directly to the source, so best guess, fast-forward five years and it's almost certain the jammer has evolved and that the cyberpod could do more than any jamming devices currently carried by naval aircraft and there was me thinking cyber attacks could only be challenged on the ground using computers to stop other computers.