Lockheed Martin Selects Linux for Missile Defense

m3lt writes "Business Wire is reporting that Concurrent announced today that Lockheed Martin Space Systems has selected RedHawk(TM) Linux as the operating system for their United States Army Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) program." From the article: "Lockheed Martin selected RedHawk for the THAAD program due to the precision and guaranteed response time of Concurrent's RedHawk Linux real-time operating system. Only RedHawk Linux was able to ensure the high frame rates required in their HIL simulation without frame overruns, thereby ensuring the highest quality of system test."

Comments

Arms

[Anonymous Coward]

So we like big arms companies now?

Re:Arms

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

Yes, ofcourse we do.
Arm developers are a very important industry. Without it we wouldn't have realistic weapon models in our games. No sir, if it wasn't for the arm companies we would have shitty weapon models that weren't even near realistic. We should thank our deity for those marvelous people of the weapon factories, without them we wouldn't be were we are today.

Tux with a rocket launcher!

[LiquidCoooled]

M M M M M MULTI-KILL!

I wonder if the selected distro includes tic-tac-toe ?

Re:Tux with a rocket launcher!

[cHALiTO]

It should! I believe the Global Thermonuclear War package lists tic-tac-toe among its dependencies ;)

Red is the colour

[ettlz]

Red Hat Linux, then Red Flag Linux, and now RedHawk Linux. What next, Red Light Linux bundling a GPL alternative to Leisure Suit Larry?

I was killed by Linux

[flowerp]

hmm, Linus Thorvalds to the rescue! No killing people with the Linux kernel, please!

Re:I was killed by Linux

[hackstraw]

If its a missile defence system, surely the point is to SAVE lives, not take them? ;)

A system that takes away fences is more likely to HURT lives.

w00t!

[Penguin Follower]

I hadn't heard of RedHawk Linux until this news blurb, so at first I thought I had read it as "RedHat" and just about choked on my coffee!

Doom 3

[Reducer2001]

Linux was able to ensure the high frame rates

It looks like the military gets better frame rates running Doom 3 under Linux also. :)

Someone give these guys a Nobel Peace prize !

[Thomas Miconi]

Now managing, configuring and upgrading missile system will be so complicated and time-consuming that missile-based wars will become essentially impossible ! Three cheers for Lockheed-Martin and Linus !

First Target

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, Linux can now really start targeting Redmond...

Re:Feel any good for building weapons?

[KiloByte]

Right... but somehow, I'm afraid of hippies shouting "make bzImage not war".

Does this mean that...

[jonwil]

You are entitled to the source code to the missiles that just landed on your head under the terms of the GPL?

Re:Does this mean that...

[Theolojin]

You are entitled to the source code to the missiles that just landed on your head under the terms of the GPL?

Yes; a CD with the source code will be included with each missile.

Re:Feel any good for building weapons?

[zerocool^]

And the tree-huggers reminding us to all "make clean"...

Re:HWIL = Hardware In the Loop

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

First of all, how does one "project" a radar "image"?

That's classified.