Hacking Avionics: GPS Spoofing & Radio Frequencies
I play the video of the UH-60's Helmet Display and Tracker System, so you can visualize the technology in these birds. Electronic warfare isn't only happening in Europe and the Middle East.
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Israeli Elbit Systems Helmet Display and Tracker System
Elbit systems' HDTS | Elbit Systems
The new HDTS features enhanced situational awareness including color symbology and Line-of-Sight technology for improved mission effectiveness.
HDTS is designed to provide enhanced day/night situational awareness and increased survivability.
The new HDTS combines the legacy ANVIS/HUDTM helmet mounted display with innovative Line-Of-Sight (LOS) technology and Day HUD capabilities, enhancing crew coordination while facilitating the operation of the helicopters’ systems.
Elbit Systems U.S. Subsidiary Awarded a Contract to Supply Common Helmet Mounted Displays to the U.S. Army | Elbit Systems | March 5, 2019
Israel GPS spoofing in Iran and Lebanon.
Thank you Haaretz for telling the truth unlike your Crime Minister Netanyahu and his Likud mafiosos.
Pilots Reported Nearly a Dozen Near Misses with Helicopters
Pilots have reported repeated close calls similar to fatal collision near DC airport | AP News | January 31, 2025
Airline pilots flying into Washington, D.C., have reported nearly a dozen near misses that were scarily similar to this week’s midair collision that killed 67 people — the type of close calls that led one aviator to complain that Reagan National Airport was “probably the most dangerous” in the nation.
In the week before the crash, at least two planes had to abort landings because helicopters got too close.
More than a half dozen military, federal and local agencies operate helicopters in the airspace near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and they need those same air routes to train for and execute their missions, current and former Army pilots said.
The Black Hawk lost in the collision was part of Fort Belvoir’s Virginia’s 12th Aviation Battalion, which “has had some classified, very important missions related to our nation’s worst day,” said Brad Bowman, a Black Hawk pilot who served in 12th Aviation Battalion for two years, referring to 9/11. “You want to have training be as realistic as possible. And that means trying to replicate what you’re actually going to be doing when you conduct your mission.”
In an attack, the unit is tasked with ensuring continuity of government by getting officials to secure locations, which means being able to fly officials from the White House, Pentagon and other locations. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Bowman took part in managing some of those flights, he said.
“Anyone who suggests that we can’t have military helicopters flying in Washington, D.C., doesn’t understand national security and the threats we confront and what is necessary to defend our citizens,” Bowman said.
The unit also ferries high-ranking military and government officials around the region, missions that are flown “every day by multiple aircraft,” said Jonathan Koziol, chief of staff for Army aviation. “The Pentagon’s right there. And we have to go in and pick up Pentagon leaders.”
GPSJAM.ORG GPS/GNSS Interference Map | U.S. | January 30, 2025
January 30, 2025 GPS Interference
Russia, Ukraine, and Israel interfere with GPS
GPS jammed on commercial flight over Atlantic for the first time | The Telegraph | June 20, 2024
The flight from Madrid to Toronto is likely to have been deliberately targeted rather than being accidentally caught in the “usual spillover” of electronic warfare, one analyst said.
The suspected cyber attack happened in the northeastern Atlantic when a pilot reported being blocked from ascending to a higher altitude because the GPS (global positioning system) of the aircraft above them had been jammed, according to the Institute for the Study of War think tank.
The cause of the jamming has not yet been identified, but GPS jamming has been recently reported over Poland and the Baltic region and attributed to Russian electronic warfare.
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