Posted on 09/16/2011 4:58:32 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N.Korea Jammed U.S. Reconnaissance Plane GPS
A U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft made an emergency landing during annual South Korea-U.S. military exercises in March when North Korea jammed its GPS device, it emerged Thursday.
According to a report the Defense Ministry submitted to Democratic Party lawmaker Ahn Kyu-baek of the National Assembly's Defense Committee, the RC-7B took off from its base at 8:30 p.m. on March 4 but had to make an emergency landing about 45 minutes later due to disruption of its GPS functions by jamming signals transmitted from Haeju and Kaesong in North Korea at intervals of five to 10 minutes that afternoon.
U.S. soldiers get off Korean Air aircraft at the Korean Air Force Airport in Daegu to participate in the Key Resolve/Foal Eagle joint exercises on March 8. The jamming signals also disrupted the GPS devices of coastal patrol boats and speed boats of the South Korean Navy. Several civilian aircraft in the Gimpo area were also affected.
The North deploys vehicle-mounted jammers that can disrupt signals within 50-100 km and is reportedly developing a jamming device capable of disrupting signals more than 100 km away.
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You can thank G. W Bush and the cowardly Navy crew that landed the Orion sigint bird in China (April 2001) rather that pushing it to the PI after the bump with the Chinese jet. They gave them everything.
Sssshhhh. DON’T confuse us with FACTS. And let the “Bushbots” sleep...they have been asleep for nearly four years now on FR.... /sarc
You mean they took a vote? I always thought the Pilot was in charge. Foolish me.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why that plane wasn’t ditched and destroyed. Assuming there was a good reason to land it intact, just letting the Chinese and everyone else have access to it is beyond me. I guess there are self destruct devices on board and since planes burn fairly well, the crew should have torched it upon landing.
Reagan would have sent a carrier battle group and enough Marines to make sure that plane was left alone or bombed the area to prevent it from falling into Chinese hands.
We are going to regret going to the “wireless” military. We should thank N Korea for the warning.
We are going to regret going to the “wireless” military. We should thank N Korea for the warning.
That's assuming that we're telling THEM the truth...
Well, it seems to me that a plane with jammed GPS, could just “inadvertently” cross over the NK border, and drop some laser guided ordinance on some unsuspecting Norks, just because he wasn’t really sure where he was or where targets were.
MI Ping
“You mean they took a vote? I always thought the Pilot was in charge. Foolish me.”
Having been part of a military unit you bet for ass the crew influences the decision.
I don’t think your foolish, just unaware.
Having spent 10 years in the military, only a worthless leader takes a vote.
As for the influence of the crew, the captain of that plane still had the final decision. Not having been on that plane, I don’t know what influenced the pilot in his decision to land were he did, but the decision was his and his only.
To call the crew cowardly is to blame the entire crew for the decision of the captain of that aircraft. I don’t know why he made the decision he did, he might have been influenced by his concern for the safety his “cowardly” crew.
“To call the crew cowardly is to blame the entire crew for the decision of the captain of that aircraft. I don’t know why he made the decision he did, he might have been influenced by his concern for the safety his “cowardly” crew.”
Pick your coward I don’t care. How many WW2 Bomber pilots flew much farther under worse conditions. That highly sensitive P3 Orion and what it carried was worth the risk it would take to keep it out of enemy hands and make the push for other options.
It begs the question, was it a gift to the Chinese?
My original disagreement was that you were calling the entire crew cowardly. My counter argument was that it was the pilots decision. You seemed to have strayed from that argument?
Not really. As to the decision making process inside the plane your points are in fact correct. My points that VOC often matters I believe is also valid. Neither of us know the decision making process going on “outside” the plane therefore my “begs the question” comment.
The USA is perceived as weak.
Having been part of a military unit
To quote you.
What military "unit" did you serve in?
And with the current asshat in charge, they are right.
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