Our enemies found a weakness in essential technology. We must fix it … fast

[libertybele]

Duh!  Who didn't see this coming a long time ago??

Our enemies found a weakness in essential technology. We must fix it … fast

In July, Iran attempted to make good on its threat to close the Strait of Hormuz. Yet the strait had already ceased functioning as reliable commercial infrastructure long before. Since the conflict started, more than 1,100 vessels recorded GPS and AIS interference in a single day, ships appeared on tracking systems at airports or deep inside Iranian territory, and ship crews navigated one of the world’s busiest waterways by radar alone because satellite navigation could no longer be trusted. Iran did more than threaten a choke point. It demonstrated what a determined adversary can do to the satellite infrastructure the modern world has taken for granted.

America depends on a second, invisible choke point: the Global Positioning System. GPS timestamps every credit card swipe and equity trade, synchronizes the power grid and cellular networks, and guides combines through fields, container ships into port and infantry through contested terrain.

That faint signal – engineered in the 1970s in a different time when our enemies weren't as savvy – now carries the weight of the entire global economy and our military edge. That world is gone. Global aviation logged roughly 430,000 jamming and spoofing incidents in 2024, a sharp 62% increase in a single year. A basic jammer can be built from off-the-shelf parts for a few hundred dollars............

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/enemies-found-weakness-essential-technology-must-fix-fast

[Smokin Joe]

Give me a ship and a star to steer her by....


We have sacrificed the fundamentals on the altar of convenience.

"With only radar..." WTF?

The globe was explored with far less.