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A Look at Modern Warfare

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A look at the overall costs of modern warfare. Comparing different vectors of cyber warfare to the costs involved with regular warfare.
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oh my God right that looks I need I can't see because of that thing there we go right so basically it's a look at Modern Warfare and not Call of Duty we all know Call of Duty 4 was the best but it's not what it's about so I am Caitlyn gartley I'm in the hacking Society abte you will see us we are everywhere there's hoodies over the place I am a seconde student at doing ethical hacking um I would also just like to point out all the figures and numbers in this I have been found from various research and I can give you I will send all this research over email and my email address is at the end

woohoo spam so what's this about basically it's just a brief look into the costs to produce both parts of War it's the Cyber and the real Warfare I suppose including the tanks and things in particular I'll looking at the M1 Abrams which is a tank commonly used in America and the very well known suck net so why and I apologize for my slide I didn't like it um so with Advance with advancements in technology today it's becoming obvious that we need to look into C we need to look into computers and technology not only Warfare including tanks bombs and soldiers are the way forward in this comparison the steps have been generalized to get the best

view to the stages in the production for each item know that's annoying me already I can go there instead the M1 tank have I gone back already going bad so the M1 tank has been used Chang and advanced over the years in the United States and as many people will know the stucks net Mal P malware stucks net was affected in in Iran's nuclear systems so the M1 ABS this is my list of basically how I I believe it's generally made so it's as I said it's a tank used in America it was in Wars such as the Afghan and the gulf Wars over 9 have been built it was built in since 1980 it's been built in the

Lima tank plant in Lima funn enough and it weighs about 67.6 tons so as with anything going into into production there has to be a suff sufficient amount of research oh my God right research to ensure the prodject can be used and is needed really the research difference as you can imagine with each product as you'd expect you'd need research into materials weapons new and old technology and the obvious things like the color this would take a number number of people all specialized in the Old Fields in particular ammunitions expert would look into the best ways to protect the tank both with weaponry and Armen mint which I can't say um This research could take months before it's ready to

actually go into design stage the design stage is obviously closely linked with ideas bouncing back and forward the design depends on the different materials that needed and the different different materials and different options needed on the tank obviously this stage could take time it could take months before a prototype is even ready to be built then you have a factory you can't just produce the tank out of in a the next stage would obviously be to make the Prototype so you need you need the Factory you need the people in the factory and you might even need to build a factory and this is automatically a huge initial Financial dedication you need your Machinery there needs to be individual

Parts Machinery going need to Machinery to put all together it's it's not une easy you can't just go in build a tank and specially designs it's not going to be cheap to buy so the material for the tank with a single ton of raw and machine steel costing currently around 380 us the weight translate at 60 tons to $22,000 so you can imagine that alone just for steel is an automatic this is falling automatic extreme cost in addition to these materials you need the insides of the tank such as the copper for the wiring the glass for the screens the computer systems and the comfy seats let's face it so after this you go back to the

factory then you need your staff as with any company there's different tiers so as a general overview um this is taken as of the 23rd of April 2014 in it's the general panum for America your general factory worker earns roughly 29,000 per anom your engineering equipment that's so your engineer equipment engineer earns roughly 41,000 40 yeah 41,000 your machine design Engineers will earn 77,000 as well as this you have your cleaners your HR your admin your security and obviously just everyone so before you can even use it it needs to be tested um before you can test it you need a meth meth oh my God methodology ology the exact criteria the test themselves this can include specialist

tracks or courses different locations different attacks on the tank itself so therefore you need to build another prototype you've just you've just got rid of your tank um you need to test the onboard systems such as Fire Control and navigations once these tests have been done let's face it more design more research more everything is going to go in so to progress we're going to tank was brilliant we're putting into progress so you go into production when a product goes into production there's still many costs to think of with 9,200 made at roughly $ 6.21 million do for to each for each one if I was to go and buy every unit today at today's current figures not

considering they were not built now it would be $32 million just for these tanks alone that's not including the costs behind them on top of these costs you'd have to obviously do all the normal Factory costs you'd need to pay the electricity bill like you need the electricity then You' need to train your soldiers you can't just give them a tank so as well as normal training and normal as well as the training that you'd normally go through you have to have your additional training to operate the vehicle for each tank there's four soldiers trained a tank commander the gun up operator the gun loader and of course the driver then you need to get your tank

TOS destination this can be the other side of the world it can be here either way this can this has to be done through ships or planes or it's doesn't just fly itself does in the 18 pardon it does in the 18 oh yeah um it's okay you can tell him a sh yeah my dad will get you like it's okay dear so once you've got your tank to its destination you have to think of the running costs the ammunition at $3,000 for a basic high explosive round and you're not just going to use one like you're straight shot I doubt it um then you have to fuel a 2,000 lit diesel tank and then the we obviously then you

have the wear Ander costs and then you have to pay the people to use it as you can see the costs and the steps just spiral and they Loop into each other and depending on the costs depending on the economy you're you're always going to have different costs and different exp expenditures so Stu net as it's a well-known malware you all know it it hit aan in roughly 2010 it's it was a worm systems and then spread it basic it root kated itself to hide all processes and servers it was running so not anyone can code stuck well in this example stuck net you've got to each coder writes differently and you have to find and finding the best one is

an important job the coder would be expected to have a high background and knowledge in different areas of malware and also excellent understanding of code B basically as well you can't tell obviously here there's not as many but you can't tell everyone what you're intended to do so here you'd have to do all your tests and all your background research on these coders oh that's bad um so you'd have to go into research so before the code could actually go out you have to check code that's been done and if it actually can you get into the system you're trying to infiltrate what will the code need to be done this is going to be really rush now

I'm sorry um then the product needs to be designed this includes code and how it's hidden and what it's going to do when it gets there this can take a long time depending on if how much you actually know about your system so then you need to write the code which even with multiple coders is going to take months everyone codes differently putting all this code together it's a lot of problems so then you test the code you need to try and put it into a similar system that it will be going into all PR they all go through the design stages the writing the testing numerous times we all know that your program is never

going to work first time then you're going to have to get it in as a it's a very protective secret how it actually got into Iran in the first place but it's as one speculation has come SL that it was through it got through the completely air gap system through USB a key problem is go always going to be getting the virus into the system with different security Force calls placed these have to be all taken into consideration so this is basically the aftermath of both of these with the M1 Abrams has been used in many wars for this example I'm going to use the Gulf War people began suffer on the first day due to high pollution in the

sea the smoke produced by wild oil fires killed off not only Wildlife but suffocated people is estimated on average the oil loss per day was $15 million various sites claim that the US as in our own casual well not our own but their own casualties were 258 deaths and 849 M did basically it's is our own soldiers are going out there and dying and being injured um it was said that at least 23 of these tanks were damaged Beyond repair in this war oh sorry that um stucks net the virus is only it's only speculated because obviously San um it said that it put the process of enriching uranium used for newly at least two years back the virus

was then found in other systems across the world and across the world from the worm spreading itself now post duet it's taken into account that Elite coding can be used so what is my point with countries now dependent on their infrastructures to do just about anything it's vital to think that the use of computers in Warfare today is it worth sending tanks and soldiers into a war zone where they could end up dying is it worth our own casualties rates rising and the millions even billions of pounds in production clean up in training but at the same time do we need the boots on the ground it is often the case we need the soldiers out there each War environment

has it own needs conditions and almost rules to abide by thank you um all my sources can be sent to this email address above kgly gmail.com enjoy the spam um thank you for letting me speak today it was great any questions