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Chinese Military Using Jamming Against U.S. Drones
THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON ^
| 5/22/2015
| Bill Gertz
Posted on 05/22/2015 6:08:21 AM PDT by McGruff
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Why send a manned flight when we have other assets that could do the job?
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posted on
05/22/2015 6:08:21 AM PDT
by
McGruff
To: McGruff
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.
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posted on
05/22/2015 6:13:27 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Yo-Yo
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.
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posted on
05/22/2015 6:16:34 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: McGruff
What would U.S. reaction be if China did this in Gulf of Mexico.
To: McGruff
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.
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posted on
05/22/2015 6:17:17 AM PDT
by
Crazieman
(Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
To: Yo-Yo
It is also almost impossible to jam a drone on autopilot.
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posted on
05/22/2015 6:17:27 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: all the best
Don’t the Russians regularly scout the Gulf?
We’d probably have a beer summit if the Chicoms would be in the Gulf.
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posted on
05/22/2015 6:19:02 AM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Unapologetic supporters of Obama, Sodomy, and Abortion will find the afterlife rather torturous)
To: Yo-Yo
A drone is alot more expendable than a manned airplane. And we have satellites.
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posted on
05/22/2015 6:25:05 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
To: PapaBear3625
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.
To: PapaBear3625
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.
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posted on
05/22/2015 6:37:40 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: McGruff
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posted on
05/22/2015 6:43:48 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: Yo-Yo
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.
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posted on
05/22/2015 6:59:22 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Hey, hey, GayKKK. Who you gonna lynch today?)
To: all the best
What would U.S. reaction be if China did this in Gulf of Mexico.
Obama would surrender!
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posted on
05/22/2015 7:17:33 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Yo-Yo
If the link is jammed, the drones already have a failsafe autopilot to fall back on, but there would be no intel. 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.
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posted on
05/22/2015 8:54:35 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: McGruff
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.
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posted on
05/22/2015 10:04:41 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
To: PapaBear3625
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.
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posted on
05/22/2015 10:07:34 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
05/22/2015 10:09:31 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
To: McGruff
The Spratley Islands are strategically situated so that a base there can be used to create a choke point to prevent our Naval forces from entering the Indian Ocean from the Pacific. Why would I do that when I have you? LOL
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posted on
05/22/2015 10:18:14 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
To: all the best
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posted on
07/23/2015 2:13:01 PM PDT
by
MeganC
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