[listenhillary]

Picture shows GPS location of the incident, as seen from a Royal Navy helicopter over the merchant vessel

[dotnetfellow]

Anyone betting on whether Britian buckles under pressure?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

If I'm reading those GPS coordinates correctly, that ship is only a little more than 5 miles from the Iranian coast.

If that's the case...the Iranians may be correct in their assessment of the Brits actions.

[1066AD]

That's funny. All the hitech milspec stuff but they use a $100 unit from the local outdoor store. Might even make it more believable as people can identify with that.

[Southack]

"Picture shows GPS location of the incident, as seen from a Royal Navy helicopter over the merchant vessel"

Notice that the GPS receiver in the picture shows an altitude of 91 meters (~~ 300 feet).

That's important.

If Iran is spoofing GPS signals in order to lure us into a trap just across the real territorial line, then that vertical altitude reading would be in error proportionate to the desired horizontal Eastern error that they would need.

Or put another way: if that altitude can be confirmed at the time of the picture, then Iran is truly in error and there is no trap (i.e. our guys were where they were supposed to be, not across the line on the Iranian side).

On the other hand, if that altitude on the GPS display is incorrect, then we have proof of Iran's GPS signal jamming/spoofing.