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US Military Plane Forced Down By North Korean Electronic Attack
By AFP ^ | 09-09-11

Posted on 09/09/2011 6:05:01 AM PDT by icwhatudo

SEOUL - A US military reconnaissance plane came under electronic attack from North Korea and had to make an emergency landing during a major military exercise in March, a political aide said Friday.

The aide said the plane suffered disturbance to its GPS system due to jamming signals from the North's southwestern cities of Haeju and Kaesong as it was taking part in the annual US-South Korea drill, Key Resolve.

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To: icwhatudo
Let's see now . . . our illegal alien imposter Commander-in-Chief will probably get so mad that he'll get off his girly bike, take the bedpan off his head, roll his sleeve up to his elbow protecting pads, and shake his fist at them.

That'll scare them.

21 posted on 09/09/2011 6:30:11 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: icwhatudo

Who says this is even necessarily true? Disinformation works.


22 posted on 09/09/2011 6:31:17 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If Hitler had been as lazy as Obama, the 1940's would have been a very nice decade!!)
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To: Jonty30

China has already proven they can take out our sattelites.

What happens if they decide to do so?

Building their own Aircraft Carrier, spending money on their military, eyes on Taiwan, using our money for their products to build up their offensive capabilities.

Perhaps testing their own equipment in N. Korea.


23 posted on 09/09/2011 6:32:52 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Venturer

Their aircraft carrier would last a hot 20 minutes at most in a real war and they know it.

Purchasing obsolete Russian designs is always the best way to kill off your sailors and the Chinese will notice that if/when the time comes.


24 posted on 09/09/2011 6:35:57 AM PDT by MikefromOhio
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To: icwhatudo

we don’t have jam-proof GPS??? Nonsense.


25 posted on 09/09/2011 6:42:32 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (So much stress was put on Bush's Fault that it finally let go, magnitude 6)
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To: icwhatudo

Easy fix. Program missiles to track signal source and say
it was their fault for trying to disrupt our missile
tracking system.


26 posted on 09/09/2011 6:42:40 AM PDT by Slambat (The right to keep and bear arms. Anything one man can carry, drive or pull.)
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To: NonValueAdded

Methinks that dependency on advanced avionics, satellites, etc will not end well.


27 posted on 09/09/2011 6:47:01 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: HangnJudge

Yes there are multiple backups - worse case scenario they go above the clouds and shoot celestial navigation. Buddy of mine was an airforce bomber pilot - they had to assume those conditions in training all the time.

I’m Navy and the first thing to go in any refresher training course was GPS (then Loran, etc I know I’m dating myself with that). Then all the officers and quartermasters who knew how to shoot bearings and plot. Somehow in reftra we always ended up a burning hulk adrift with not a single NCO or Officer in charge. I used to enjoy walking around in my “zombie” state teaching and helping sailors with this and that thing they’d never worked on before. Good times. Was the best part of being in the service...though I always questioned if the training always ended up that way would they be so ingrained to it that they would ‘zombify’ on cue in a real attack - LOL.


28 posted on 09/09/2011 6:54:55 AM PDT by reed13
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To: Sacajaweau

Nice to know that in an actual war, all our planes would be grounded...


29 posted on 09/09/2011 6:58:49 AM PDT by green iguana
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To: icwhatudo

The fact that this event was announced by the military means that we’re making a deal out of it. Whether it will be a big deal remains to be seen.


30 posted on 09/09/2011 7:01:09 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Future Useless Eater; driftdiver

It sounds like it might have been the RC-135. I flew on that bird in the Middle East.

Yes, these planes can fly without GPS (they usually carry 2 navigators, 1 using digital, 1 tracking with map and compass - as backup, just for this type of thing) but you must stay on track. They were jamming this time but what happens if they start giving phony data. The RC-135 or whatever plane it was, might stray into North Korean territory and they could legally shoot it down.

And this type of thing is not a new trick. The Russians used to do the same thing from East Germany. They would lure our planes over the border with false NAV beacons.


31 posted on 09/09/2011 7:02:46 AM PDT by Azeem (The world will look up and shout "Save us!"... And I'll whisper "No.")
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To: NonValueAdded

GPS relies on signals from satellites. Any device that relies on RF signals can be jammed. All the bad guy needs to know is the frequency band.

There are ways to mitigate rf jamming, but both the sender and receiver have to be on the “same page” so to speak. I don’t believe GPS satellites have that capability.


32 posted on 09/09/2011 7:02:58 AM PDT by Francis McClobber
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To: Lazamataz
Disinformation works.

Mostly everyday except Sunday, and that Sunday part may be wrong this year. Information should be up and running this Sunday.

33 posted on 09/09/2011 7:07:58 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: BIGLOOK

fyi


34 posted on 09/09/2011 7:10:44 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: Jonty30
I’m just wondering if China finds value in North Korea, because they can try out strategy on real Western targets without repercussion.

Nah. China learned from W that they can force our planes down and we won't hold a grudge. Gotta keep that "FREE" trade going for da boys on da board ya know.

35 posted on 09/09/2011 7:13:23 AM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: icwhatudo

Drudge has it up now.


36 posted on 09/09/2011 7:18:11 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Mr. Weiner...Don' t Tweet your meat. It's too late to delete!)
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To: HangnJudge

“..Misleading Headline?.. Do not navigators learn to navigate without GPS?..”

I certainly hope so, eg dead reckoning, celestial, radar, local area noon, etc. But maybe we’re so screwed up like today’s education system where we have to use calculators to do square roots or long division.

Certainly, some form of tactical or strategic retaliation (jam their radar, screw up their satellites, etc.) was in order, but as another poster said, the pubic public doesn’t have a need to know about this.


37 posted on 09/09/2011 7:19:22 AM PDT by secondamendmentkid
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To: icwhatudo

The report doesn’t parse. ‘Emergency’ landing means what it says - a landing required to avoid substantial hazard to or loss of the aircraft. IMHO, EMP attack is one of the major hazards to the safe operation of any fly-by-wire flight control system. Another major hazard to the safe operation of a fly-by-wire flight control system is that it was designed and built by Airbus Industries, but we hope and assume that was not the case here.


38 posted on 09/09/2011 7:22:59 AM PDT by Bedford Forrest (Roger, Contact, Judy, Out. Fox One. Splash one.<I>)
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To: HangnJudge
Do not navigators learn to navigate without GPS? I assume the plane was not so much forced down as it chose to return to a known safe point by non-GPS techniques Misleading Headline?

I thought the same thing. GPS went down, plane went home to find out why.

We should still blow the locations of the jammers out of ground though.

39 posted on 09/09/2011 7:23:09 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Lazamataz

I agree...


40 posted on 09/09/2011 7:26:26 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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