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To: listenhillary; blam; section9; Rokke; Pukin Dog; Dog; Nick Danger; SJackson; yonif; Howlin; ...
"Picture shows GPS location of the incident, as seen from a Royal Navy helicopter over the merchant vessel"

Notice that the GPS receiver in the picture shows an altitude of 91 meters (~~ 300 feet).

That's important.

If Iran is spoofing GPS signals in order to lure us into a trap just across the real territorial line, then that vertical altitude reading would be in error proportionate to the desired horizontal Eastern error that they would need.

Or put another way: if that altitude can be confirmed at the time of the picture, then Iran is truly in error and there is no trap (i.e. our guys were where they were supposed to be, not across the line on the Iranian side).

On the other hand, if that altitude on the GPS display is incorrect, then we have proof of Iran's GPS signal jamming/spoofing.

226 posted on 03/29/2007 12:45:51 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
You are thinking too much, giving the Iranians too much credit. There is no GPS shenanigans going on, the Iranians are just lying. Any thought beyond that just plays in to their hands.

Look, its all just noise.

Iran wants war, and we are going to have to give it too them. Bush and Blair need to resign themselves to the obvious.

241 posted on 03/29/2007 5:51:46 AM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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The helo flew back out to the barge a day or so later. The barge was anchored and had not moved. That's when the GPS pic was taken.

Ministry of Defence "On Sunday morning, 25 March, HMS CORNWALL's Lynx conducted an overflight of the merchant vessel, which was still at anchor, and once again confirmed her location on Global Positioning System equipment. Her Master confirmed that his vessel had remained at anchor since Friday, and was in Iraqi territorial waters."

253 posted on 03/29/2007 7:02:08 AM PDT by Canali
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To: Southack
"If Iran is spoofing GPS signals in order to lure us into a trap just across the real territorial line,"

In order to jam or "spoof" GPS signals, you need to be between the satellites and the receiver. Because receivers rely on signals from several different satellites to compute a solution, you need a jammer very close (and above) the receiver being jammed. In short, Iran is not having any influence on our GPS systems.

269 posted on 03/29/2007 8:17:21 AM PDT by Rokke
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