A threat raids flights in the skies of Iraq

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[size=52]A threat raids flights in the skies of Iraq[/size]

[size=45]The American newspaper “Washington Times” revealed that the global positioning system linked to satellites (GPS) was subjected to “spoofing and misleading” operations, which caused it to be shut down, which affected Iraqi flights recently and their safety if it was possible that Iranian air defenses would shoot them down.[/size]
[size=45]The American report, quoting the OpsGroup, a private group specializing in aircraft security, stated that “false electronic signals simulating locations determined by satellites were recorded near Iran, and the directional systems on board 12 flights along a flight path in eastern Iraq parallel to Iran were shut down.”[/size]
[size=45]The American newspaper quoted a warning statement from the navigation group, saying that there is “a new worrying development emerging in the airspace where aircraft are being targeted with fake Global Positioning System (GPS) signals, leading to a rapid loss of their complete navigational ability.”[/size]
[size=45]The American report indicated that “the crew of a Boeing 777 plane, which was flying near southeastern Iraq, heading towards Baghdad, lost the ability to use its GPS system in one incident, which put the pilot in a state of cognitive darkness.”[/size]
[size=45]The Private Navigation Group noted in its statement that the pilot asked the control tower, “What time is it, and where are we?”[/size]
[size=45]The report stated that this “spoofing” incident is the first in which false GPS signals were discovered to penetrate aircraft systems.[/size]
[size=45]The report explained that these Iraqi incidents differ from previous attempts to jam the GPS system, noting that previous jamming incidents had been discovered on the GPS signals of civilian aircraft in other places, including near South Korea and the Middle East.[/size]
[size=45]The report explained that what is new is that the false “GPS” signals were received by modern navigation systems called “IRS” systems, which until now were believed to be immune to false signals to determine false locations, as this modern system collects signals from satellites on Regular intervals so that he can safely determine the time and location of the aircraft during its flight.[/size]
[size=45]The report continued that the false signals received by the plane heading to Baghdad apparently showed that the plane had deviated from its actual course by between 69 and 92 miles.[/size]
[size=45]The report warned that the GPS spoofing process poses a particular risk in the region because the plane could have risked being shot down if it strayed into Iranian airspace, as the area where the events occurred is considered a conflict zone and the planes are exposed to potential risks of terrorist attacks. However, many airlines, including a European airline, several Middle Eastern airlines and private jets, use this airspace.[/size]
[size=45]The report added that the Federal Aviation Administration, the International Civil Aviation Organization, and the US Central Command did not all comment on these events. The American report revealed that false signals were also discovered by aircraft near the city of Erbil, near northern Iran and eastern Turkey, and near Baku in Azerbaijan.[/size]
[size=45]The report spoke of a “similar pattern” of interference operations that were recorded, as fake signals from the “GPS” system were directed to the target aircraft, which caused the equipment to incorrectly determine the location of the aircraft, which resulted in a “failure in navigation” through entanglement interference. Between the computers on the plane and conflicting data.[/size]
[size=45]However, the report stated that some of the crews of these aircraft were able to prevent malfunctions by completely and immediately cutting off the signals coming into the GPS system.[/size]
[size=45]According to the report, this fraudulent jamming process can pose a “very great danger,” which causes pilots to resort to obtaining navigational support, relying on so-called “green needles,” which are ground assistants wherever available.[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that this type of electronic spoofing in recent incidents can only affect the navigation systems of civil aircraft, as military aircraft are equipped with GPS reception equipment that is designed to be protected from misleading signals, which means that civil aviation electronic systems It is vulnerable to plagiarism and confusion.[/size]
[size=45]The American report stated that the special navigation group did not identify the source of the false signals except by saying that it was near Iran.[/size]
[size=45]He added that this indication that it is near Iran means that Tehran may have developed advanced electronic warfare capabilities to thwart civilian or foreign intelligence aircraft, such as drones.[/size]
[size=45]After he referred to the Iranians’ announcement of a focus on the use of electronic warfare since 2017, he mentioned a statement by a senior official in the Iranian Ministry of Defense in the year 2021, in which he said that Iran was first in the region in electronic warfare capabilities, indicating that the construction of electronic warfare systems had increased by five. double that year.[/size]
[size=45]He added that it is known that Iran uses at least two types of aircraft for electronic warfare: the “Kaman-12” drone, and the “Boeing 707” aircraft equipped for electronic warfare. According to the private “OpsGroup” group, there are 10 separate reports of spoofing global GPS signals, which the group describes as “all of them worrying” for two reasons: the complexity of the adopted methodology, and the unexpected hack into the new IRS system.[/size]
[size=45]According to the report, the “OpsGroup” includes pilots from private airlines and large airlines. The report indicated that the 12 misleading reports were obtained from reports sent by pilots during the past few weeks along a flight path in eastern Iraq parallel to Iran.[/size]
[size=45]He explained that the aircraft targeted by deception include the “Boeing 777”, “747”, “737”, “Embraer 190” and “Embraer 600”, and the “Gulfstream G650”, “Bombardier Challenger 650”, “Global Express” and “Dassault Falcon 8X.”[/size]
[size=45]The report explained that most of these aircraft were flying in a flying zone called “Air YUM 688” in Iraqi airspace, which extends north and south along the western border of Iran.[/size]
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