Posted on 08/08/2019 5:24:38 AM PDT by nuconvert
Ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf have reported unusual GPS interference, among other problems, and the US believes Iran is to blame.
The Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration issued a warning on Wednesday highlighting threats to commercial vessels posed by Iran. The warning revealed that ships have had a variety of issues when operating in the region, including "spoofed bridge-to-bridge communications from unknown entities falsely claiming to be US or coalition warships."
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US defense official told CNN that Iran has GPS jammers operating on Abu Musa Island, an island in the Persian Gulf located near the Strait of Hormuz, adding that the aim is apparently to cause ships and aircraft to inadvertently wander into Iranian waters or airspace, thus justifying a seizure.
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I know and while I’m looking forward to His return, I weep for my unbelieving family members. Bless you.
Run along, little Rouhani.
Looks like a fine instrument
This is what Iran did to our navy guys in the rubber boat a year or two ago. Then they put them on display on TV before eventually letting them go.
We should park a warship off Abu Musa and shell it until the GPS jammer stops. I’d use GPS missiles, but a naval artillery bombardment is so much more soothing and psychologically effective.
It’s too bad all the old battleships were retired...
Wrong.
Quite a few moons ago, I went to EE school (4 or 5-year University) with a number of Persians, as we then called them. Only a few were good at, say, troubleshooting a circuit. But, at theory and being able to do the math in their heads while the rest of us (including some really smart Asians) were fumbling with plugging values for the variables into our calculators for, oh, say a 20+ character equation including maybe a log function and an arctangent (or whatever), several of those guys had no peers. They’d promptly spit out an answer to 5 digits of precision and maybe be off by a couple (say, a “5” instead of “7” on only the last digit.) “Seven-hundred-forty-three-point-two-five.” The rest of us would be looking at each other with slightly dropped jaws and muttering the f-word under our breaths...
Common sense? Well, that was a bit different matter.
Negligent and foolish. Sadly, the requirements for licences has diminished and basic navigation skills for pilots is lacking.
I’m sure that boating navigation skills are lacking as well.
we need to start putting big smoking holes in the ground where their military bases used to be.
we could even warn them, let them evacuate... then blammo.
One base at a time until they see the light
They are not just trying to block the signal with brute force noise jamming, but trying to distort the position fix.
I do not think SAASM is available on civilian GPS such as these ships would have.
In fairness to the present day navigators, the precision required to avoid Iranian waters is slightly harder than setting sail and heading in the general direction of England or “India” as the Vikings or Columbus did long ago. The Polynesians used the stars to navigate and the Hawaiian Islands extend over one thousand miles. Hard to miss them. (Hilo to Midway)
Nobody wants to hear sense. They’re on a roll.
What if coordinated crises? The Iranians make a major move against international shipping in the Gulf, and China sends the People’s Liberation Army into Hong Kong “to maintain order” at the request of Ms Quisling.
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