LoJack for tanks ect

[Stevens]

I keep hearing on the news our concern that military equipment we donate to other countries may be used against us, as infact is being done right now by Isis, maybe others.
It seems logical to fit the equipment we hand out with some high tech system like lojack which would disable it on some command beamed to it by us. I know these bad guys have some savvy computer guys working for them but it seems we could out smart them so they could not disarm it but would blow themselves up trying. Disable or better yet to explode on our command, secretly tracked by gps and go boom when a bunch of them are riding it in one of the victory parades they like to video for the news.
This would have to be high tech but I feel someone in this country should be able to do that. tanks, APC vehicles, artillery, stingers etc etc it all uses electronics.
Steve W

 

[A-37]

Chipped

Excellent idea, Stevens.

Try this: DOD implants an ID/GPS chip in every U.S. soldier and civilian deploying to the Middle East area of interest. If our guy is held hostage, the Special Forces home in and kill every #^$&! one of the ISIS on the scene. Take no prisoners.

Maybe the U.S has already tried this and maybe the bad guys have the technology to scan for such a chip. Worth a try, though.

 

[Mcwsky09]

Maybe the military should team with apple and create a Find My Asset app.
Something like the locator in a person or even equipment is not a bad idea but would likely work better if it were a secret even from most of the folks deployed with it. The less the enemy knows about your capabilities the better your advantage over them.

 

[venomballistics]

Hack the beacon and your super secret covert planned for months commando infiltration operation is over with a bad ending.

 

[Mcwsky09]

Hack the beacon and your super secret covert planned for months commando infiltration operation is over with a bad ending.

There is that too or cases where someone accidentally or purposefully gives up the secret.

 

[LVSteve]

Great idea with a massive unintended consequence. Several large US defence contracts either did, or came close to going TU because of ITAR software rules. Once word of such a facility got out (and it would) the US manufacturers would be dead in the water on the world market. Nobody would trust them again. The French and the Russians would clean up.

 

[oldRoger]

I heard or read a piece by some ex-military maintenance guy who said that secondary use of captured US equipment was not really much of a problem.
Evidently even the Iraqi military was not able to keep most of our "gifts" operational without a lot of outside help (contractors). So use by The Islamic State of say an Abrams is not going to continue long.

The Russian Stuff captured by IS from the Syrians is more of a threat, not only is it easier keep operational, most of the "fighters" were trained on it. For example; the tanks employed by IS are ex-Russian, ex-Syrian, T-55s which I guess are rather common in the Mid-East.

 

[zzzippper]

Most foreign customers don't get the exact same arms that our military gets. Some customers (Israel) exactually improve them. Pakistan reverse-engineered the F-16, just like the USSR did with the B-29.

Some features can be remotely denied depending on the system. That is all I can or will say about that.

 

[Snapping Twig]

Bad idea because...

God forbid, but it always happens, enemy finds the backdoor gateway.

They shut us down at the crucial moment, done.

We should scuttle things when we leave. A bit of thermite on the right parts, good to go.