US Navy buys Linux to guide drone fleet (The Register)

Assuming in either case that the vehicles(s) used were duds and failed to self-terminate/detonate, how receptive will the upstream distributor (the US Navy in this case) be about receiving updates via the same delivery vehicle (of course, with any software updates/fixes applied... e.g. bug #42393 - failed to detonate)???

I could see that leading to some very rapid development... at least in the short term.