Posted on 05/22/2015 6:08:21 AM PDT by McGruff
China tried to electronically jam U.S. drone flights over the South China Sea in a bid to thwart spying on disputed island military construction, U.S. officials said.
Global Hawk long-range surveillance drones were targeted by the jamming in at least one incident near the disputed Spratly Islands, where China is building military facilities on Fiery Cross Reef.
Disclosure of the jamming came as a U.S. Navy P-8 surveillance flight on Wednesday was challenged eight times by the Chinese military to leave the same area.
This is the Chinese navy
This is the Chinese navy
Please go away
to avoid misunderstanding, a radio call in English from an installation on Firey Cross said. The warnings were reported by CNN, which had a reporter on the aircraft.
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Because we’re just beginning to see the limitations of unmanned drones against a tier one adversary. It’s impossible to jam a pilot in the cockpit.
No, they can just shoot one down and hold the pilot.
You can make drones more resistant to jamming. You can make them smarter so that they won't need control signals so much.
What would U.S. reaction be if China did this in Gulf of Mexico.
From what I understand, these are detected attempted jamming efforts, however these drones are being sent on preprogrammed recording flights, and unless the Chinese are able to crack the override encryption they will continue on in their missions.
It is also almost impossible to jam a drone on autopilot.
Don’t the Russians regularly scout the Gulf?
We’d probably have a beer summit if the Chicoms would be in the Gulf.
A drone is alot more expendable than a manned airplane. And we have satellites.
We can send drones with a preset mission. If they jamb them then we have no way to recall the mission. Oops, too bad, boom.
The advantage of a drone is that it is expendable. And we’ve expended a lot of them in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But the remote link does much more than just fly the plane. The remote link also controls the onboard sensors and relays real-time data back. If the link is jammed, the drones already have a failsafe autopilot to fall back on, but there would be no intel.
The emissions themselves would be the intel. China screwed the pooch big time with this stunt while trying to make a point.
Obama would surrender!
There would be if the drone recorded the feed. It could then be relayed either when it landed, or when the drone came out of the jamming environment.
We are paying for that military base in the Spratley Islands.
We’re paying for a lot more than that, that will come back to bite us on the ass hard!
This is national suicide.
A drone isn’t a U-2 and doesn’t carry a wide field ultra high resolution camera. A drone’s camera generally has to be slewed to the area of interest.
Could have just used Google Maps.
The Russians had a fleet off of Texas last month and we did nothing about it. Does that answer your question?
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