North Korea Jamming Commercial Airline Signals
05-03-2012, 09:18 AM
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North Korea Jamming Commercial Airline Signals
They are such a passive aggressive country:
"South Korean officials say the jamming of communications affecting civilian flights is coming from the North.
Martin Streetly, an IHS Jane’s expert on electronic warfare, told Fox News: “North Korea certainly has the capability to jam GPS signals and is believed to have been doing so since at least 2010.”
So far, no flights have experienced difficulties because of the jamming, but the South Korean Transport Department said in a statement that 241 flights by their planes and foreign airlines have been affected since last weekend.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05...est=latestnews
Pilots and airlines have been warned about the jamming, which is heaviest around Seoul’s main Incheon airport."
"South Korean officials say the jamming of communications affecting civilian flights is coming from the North.
Martin Streetly, an IHS Jane’s expert on electronic warfare, told Fox News: “North Korea certainly has the capability to jam GPS signals and is believed to have been doing so since at least 2010.”
So far, no flights have experienced difficulties because of the jamming, but the South Korean Transport Department said in a statement that 241 flights by their planes and foreign airlines have been affected since last weekend.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05...est=latestnews
Pilots and airlines have been warned about the jamming, which is heaviest around Seoul’s main Incheon airport."
05-03-2012, 12:05 PM
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You are right, the whole conflict is the most passive aggressive culmination of shitposting and angry notes the world has ever seen.
05-06-2012, 04:42 PM
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NK has been doing similar things to this for years to the military. Meaconinng, they intercept and rebroadcast that signal to try to make pilots fly over their country so they they can shoot them down. Pilots are getting too comfortable with GPS and geewhiz stuff, they need to learn how ot read a map and a compass again. Though chnaces of learning a map again for back-up/reference is highly unlikely, they will probably just attempt to have something similar to military encoding/decrypting like a Y code. GPS can still be a primary means of navigation, but there is no substitute for some old fasioned map/nav charts, a compass and some dead roconing type navigation to verify.