A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
  • casskaydee [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    63·
    14 days ago

    It’s the first known instance where military GPS jamming played a role in downing a civilian plane in US airspace

    Can you count all of the qualifiers?

    • WokePalpatine [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      13 days ago

      Would be cool to explode out all permutations of this where the US military used GPS jamming to down a civilian plane outside of the us, downed a civilian plane inside the US without jamming, etc. etc.

      • MLRL_Commie [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        13 days ago

        list of flexible phrases (with some other options to explore in the permutations):

        -known instance (swept-under-the-rug instance, unverified instance)

        -military (paramilitary, police, civilian)

        -GPS jamming (EMP, communications jamming)

        -played a role (did, caused, was behind, happened close to)

        -downing (exploding, grounding, disappearing)

        -civilian plane (terrorist-linked plane, unknown plane, plane claimed to be civilain by [insert enemy country])

        -in US airspace (in the world, over this specific mountain range, in civilian airspace)

        I like the combination:

        ‘It’s the first unverified instance where paramilitary EMP happened close to an exploding terrorist-linked plane above the Mississippi River’

        or the simple removal of most of it, which the writers hope you imagine when you read it:

        ‘It’s the first instance where US GPS jamming happened close to a non-combatant plane’