When military equipment is captured, an enemy can get access to information about those weapons systems that renders them more vulnerable to attack.
This is true of both hardware and software.
Today’s invention is a program which, when a weapon is about to be captured, allows a crew member to wipe all of the software on board and replace it with an obscured, misleading, booby-trapped and/or out of date version.
This would be synchronised with some self-destruct charges that are designed to be only partially effective, so that the overrun weapon’s systems will still be accessible for interrogation and re-engineering.
A version could be developed which, when connected to an interrogator’s network, undertook a counterattack by viruses etc.
