The escalating conflict in the Middle East represents an invisible but possibly fatal threat to aircraft that cross the region’s airspace.
The electronic war technology used by Iran, Israel and other players in the region are increasingly drowning out the satellite signals that use modern jets to determine their positions.
The risk of losing your GPS connections and standing out of the course warns the risk that aircraft will collide or shot down when you lose your GPS.
The airlines are faced with the election to trust pilots to fly through affected areas or carry out costly diversions that could add a thousand miles and two hours to every flight.
The tragedy has so far largely been turned away, although the crash of an Azerbaijan aircraft in Kazakhstan was connected to Jamming.
Benoit Figuet, co-founder of Skai, who arranges GPS-Jamming, warns the increasing prevalence of technology, which is new challenges for the airlines.
“The goal of Jamming is to prevent the rocket from reaching your goal, but civil aircraft use the same GPS system to navigate,” he says. “Pilots are very concerned about the increasing risk.”
Cases of navigation systems have risen to Iran 10 days ago since Benjamin Netanyahu started.
FLIGHTRADAR24 reported on a “dramatic increase” of interference, since the United States had attacked Iran’s underground institutions at the weekend, while Skai said that on June 21, more than 160 flights in the Persian Golf region were affected, together with almost 90 in heaven in Israel.
Airplanes around volatile regions were hit by spoofing and jamming
Civil aircraft can be sent from the course in two different ways.
The most fundamental jamming is to transmit a signal that is strong enough to drown out the weaker signatures of satellites. Since this deprives the data recipient, the pilots of the flight are generally quickly aware of the situation.
GPS spoofing is a more modern technology and includes a wrong position for the rocket or the aircraft, which causes the former to miss his goal, but to send the latter from the course.
In a recently carried out survey under 2,000 flight crews of the OPS Group, an organization for pilots, air traffic controls and flight distributors, 70 percent evaluated their concern about the effects of spoofing on flight safety as very high or extreme.
Her greatest worries were rejected by the course, could not be able to use GPS-based national aids, not to restore GPS and without having to fly over the ocean and not to maintain any warnings for the proximity of false soil, which could lead to an emergency stop and a collision.
Airplanes – like jamming and spoofing aircraft
While the “hot war” in the Middle East is a clear threat to flying over aircraft, whereby the risk of a passenger aircraft is accidentally or deliberately targeted, the risk of the invisible conflict should remain long after the military exchange has been completed.
After Russia built electronic war systems along its western border since the Ukraine invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago, the Jamming along an arch is active from 3,500 miles from the Arctic Ocean to Oman.
Although tight gaps in the still open airspace made it possible for the airlines to continue to fly from Europe and eastern USA to the Middle East, Asia and Australia and at the same time avoid conflict zones, these areas were not immune to jamming.
Increases of the interference with satellite signals were common over Iraq, which was the most popular route for flights between Europe and the Golf until it also became a ban on flight when Israel began its flood against Iran on June 13.
Although aircraft continue to fly over Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia to reach the Far East, the map of Skai shows that these flights may be exposed to intensive Russian Jamming activities in the southern Black Sea.
The Azerbaijan Airlines plunged against the suspected Russian Jamming last December, which opposed drone attacks. After the aircraft lost the GPS contact, the plane was hit by a rocket from Splitter and redirected to Kazakhstan, where it came down and 38 of the 67 people killed on board.
An Azerbaijan aircraft crash last December included the alleged Russian Jamming, which is against drone attacks – Azamat Sarsenbayev/Reuters
Airlines that were after the Gulf and India had flown a much southern route since the beginning of the Israeli offensive. The flights from Europe over the Mediterranean and to Egypt before they bent east via Saudi Arabia and gives the war zone a wide berth.
Nevertheless, numerous airlines after the United States’ bombing on Sunday gave up the services on the Golf, whereby British Airway’s flights exposed flights to both Dubai and Doha in Katar after they had already put Bahrain and Amman on hold in Jordan.
British Airways canceled two more services on Monday before announcing that overnight trips to Dubai, usually the most busy international airport in the world, and Doha would continue after an assessment of the security situation.
The winter-like flights from Virgin Atlantic to Dubai will only be resumed in October, while the services to Riad in Saudi Arabia will be continued as usual. India flights were derived from the Golf and Iraq.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents 350 airlines, emphasized the threat from Jamming and Spoofing at its annual meeting at the beginning of this month and said that the cases of the GPS signal loss between 2021 and 2024 had increased triple.
Nick Careen, IATA Security chief, said that the typical response to spoofing is currently to restart the system so that the level can resume its correct coordinates, although this is not possible in all aircraft models.
He also asked the governments to stop airports and air traffic controls, remove ground -based navigation aids that could help to guide aircraft when the satellite instruction was lost.
He said: “It doesn’t need a rocket scientist to see where we go. In order to be ahead of the threat, aviation has to act together and immediately.”
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