GPS compromised, F35s flying blind...China watching and learning

According to Colonel Douglas Macgregor, Iran has found a serious vulnerability in the F35 that had been highly dependent on the GPS system, which Iran is now using to counter the invincibility of the F35.

This countermeasure was probably not been executed while Iran itself was tied to the GPS system earlier, until it switched to China's BeiDou system last June, complemented by Russia GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System) which enabled Iran to do wholesale spoofing and jamming of the USA's GPS system without jeopardizing its own military operation. In any case Iran's earlier use of the USA's GPS system had already been highly compromised by the USA itself. Precision bombing of Israel by Iran had also been compromised in earlier conflicts, and why it was so is an open secret.

The discovery of the vulnerability and how to counter it actually started much earlier when Iran captured a USA RQ-170 drone in 2011, studied its GPS architecture and developed a counter with the help of Russia, China and its own engineers. The result was the development of a spoofing and jamming system to disable the GPS signals that the F35 relies on for its mission.

Without that highly dependable GPS guidance, Israel's F35, despite being stealth, but unknowingly visible, are flying blind without the ability to do precision targeting. This has practically made the Israeli F35 lost its invincibility in the air in the Middle East. This has also been a vulnerability that the USA had been trying to keep under wraps for years but is now exposed by Iran. Suffice to say, the Chinese and Russians are probably fully aware of the loophole long ago, having been involved in Iran's development of the countering system. Call it a nightmare for the USA is saying the obvious.

As I have been saying, this war has exposed so much of the USA's vulnerability, with a treasure trove of lessons being learnt by China and Russia, that the USA is probably panicking about its coming entanglement against China. China has already built a barrier along its Eastern flanks to counter USA aircraft carriers from coming too close in order to launch planes for carpet bombing missions when it comes to the issue of Taiwan. China can wait, upgrade its military from the lessons learned from Iran, while the window of opportunity for the USA to overwhelm China dissipates.

The rules and strategies of war are changing and changing fast. A 21st century war is already being fought in the Middle East. In the aftermath, countries are realizing that what works wonderfully with tactics used in the 20th century are no longer working as well today.


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