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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China leverages North Korea against us, and plays a “fake” role as arbitrator between us and them, where they in reality simply carve out some advantage for themselves but have no genuine interests.
For China, North Korea is a giant crow bar.
Maybe we just wanted them to think that our planes couldn’t operate without GPS.
You will see little press coverage because no US politician will mention it.
There is a deliberate attempt at downplay of the threat as well as N. Korea’s actions because in the US we are now internally focused (economy) and retreat mode (disengage). Recent events like artillery fire on South Korea, torpedo attacks on ships... none of that gets a real reaction out of us. (ignore and minimize has been our MO)
Must not have been piloted by Lt. Shane Osborn, who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for “heroism and extraordinary achievement” and hand-delivering a loaded EP-3 to the Chicoms.
What’s your beef with Lt Osborn? Or is it our military in general?
Yep, agree.... one fail is a mechanical / electronic issue..... were it a few dozen.
Nuke em from space to be sure.....;o)
Diplomacy & Political Correctness is such an expensive failure for peace.
.......just my opinion.
Jamming works AWESOME when no one is shooting back. In the event of a real war big shooty things will be flying back and forth killing people and breaking stuff. I’ve been out of it for a while; I am willing to bet that we have something in our bag of tricks to deal with this in the event of a real war. How much of an “emergency” is it when the emmitting source goes up in a great big fireball?
The Chinese and Russian know what happened to Iraqi radar operators and EW folks when they turned their gear on. I am sure they are working to find a way around it, just as we are coming up with ways to ruin the bad guy’s days in more imaginative and deadly ways.
Yeah,IIRC, They had the most advanced ruskie hardware and we were downtown and gone before they knew we were there. Check and Checkmate.
This is way too technical. Can you break it down a little for us laymen?
It depends. Emitting source can be modified microwave oven. Already tried and it works.
$75 decoy vs. $750,000 missile.
I’d call it scalar weaponry
Chicoms behind it all IMHO.
SOP, for us as well as them. Every move makes us smarter too. Let’s not pretend the Reds are that good.
The WILD WEASEL can ruin your whole day.
Hopefully nokor jamming won’t interfere with civil aviation like when Soviet’s trying to catch a RC-135 misrouted KAL 007 towards Sakhalin Island.
Bingo, my thought exactly. The electronic attack didn’t come close to working, but Ronery Reader and his big brothers in Beijing think it did. Not a bad place to be.
I would too, but Zero would want to let NATO or the UN handle it.
Why? Who are we keeping it a secret from, The N. Koreans know what they did.
These people don't have a clue what they are up against.
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