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2017-01-16 Science & Technology

Can the Russians shut down our copper-wired carriers with EW?

On the internet, nobody can tell you're a dog. Idiocy is painfully obvious, however.

[PaulCraigRoberts.org] Readers have asked me why 10 of 11 US aircraft carriers are lined up in a row in dock allegedly for maintanence.

Occam's razor would suggest it is because they are in need of maintenance, but let us proceed.

It reminds them of the battleships at Pearl Harbor. Readers ask if this could be an indication that the Deep State is planning a false flag attack on the carriers, as was carried out on the World Trade Center and Pentagon

...it is not promising that the blogger is a 9/11 truther...

in order to get the US at war with the independent Muslim world,

...that was the idea, true, but it was Osama bin Laden's idea, not ours.

this time in order to get the US at war with Russia before Trump can restore normal relations.

No need for deep state conspiracies when Barack Obama is in residence in the White House with his phone and pen, happy to create mischief foreign and domestic for his unwanted successor.

I don’t think so.

What you are doing does not reach the level of thinking. Thinking requires an IQ with two digits.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was real, if provoked. The deception apparently was in the fact that Washington had warning but did not share it with the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The Battleships were outmoded weapons, and the aircraft carriers had been removed.

I have no idea what this sentence means.

It would be extremely difficult to blame a false flag attack on US aircraft carriers on Russia. Indeed, if Russia wants to attack the US, the target would not be obsolete weapons such as aircraft carriers.

According to what I have been told by former(?) intelligence officers, the aircraft carriers are in dock so that their copper wiring can be replaced by fiber optics.

All at once? Nonsense.

Apparently, the Russians have the capability to shut down the operating systems of our ships and aircraft that are copper wired. In behalf of this conclusion, there were news reports that a missile ship Washington sent to impress the Russian naval base in Crimea had all its systems shut down by the overflight of one Russian jet. According to another news report, two Israeli US jet fighters were sent to express disobedience to Russia’s controlled airspace in Syria. The Russians asked the Israelis to leave, and when they did not, the Russians shut down the fire control and communication systems of their aircraft.

We watch the news here at Rantburg, and saw no such report. Israel has recently been shooting up that Syrian Air Force station outside Damascus where Hizb'allah takes delivery of Iranian weaponry, but absolutely nobody has managed to interfere.

According to what I have been told, the Russians discovered that copper wiring permits them to disrupt the operating systems with certain radar frequencies built into their air control systems.
Any of this true?

The gentleman writes well, with a good sense of grammar and spelling, so there's that.

Posted by Thumper Dribble5791 2017-01-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 I never realized how much wackiness there was in the world until the internet came along.

Posted by phil_b 2017-01-16 00:38|| 2017-01-16 00:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Wackiness? Well, the AM band used to have some stations too....

Posted by newc 2017-01-16 01:20|| 2017-01-16 01:20|| Front Page Top

#3 So the Russians selectively whacked fire control and communications, but left delicate control untouched. Sounds like someone is on a fishing expedition.

Posted by gorb 2017-01-16 03:21|| 2017-01-16 03:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Should worry about Russian telepathic projectors, not copper wires.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-16 04:45|| 2017-01-16 04:45|| Front Page Top

#5 I guess they have never heard of MilSpec and hardening against EMI.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-01-16 05:03|| 2017-01-16 05:03|| Front Page Top

#6 As a counterpoint, I seem to remember full flyby events of US Naval vessel Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea not too long ago.

A rabid conspiracist might consider the dual formation event a 'jammer' followed by a monitoring sensor platform. All that is really needed is to force a weapon system C&C component into an error reset condition which triggers a timeout and reboot protocol.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-01-16 05:55|| 2017-01-16 05:55|| Front Page Top

#7 "The deception apparently was in the fact that Washington had warning but did not share it with the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. " Gen. Martin & Admiral Bellinger did their jobs in March 1941 of predicting the details of the Pearl Harbor attack that followed on 7 Dec. 1941, but their report was studiously ignored by the higher command. The "deception" was merely self-deception on the part of the US higher command. The part played by Martin & Bellinger continues to be studiously ignored by historians.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-01-16 12:19|| 2017-01-16 12:19|| Front Page Top

#8 10 carriers can't be lined up in a row at dock - they are neither based nor serviced at the same port.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-01-16 15:21|| 2017-01-16 15:21|| Front Page Top

#9 (I think they are all built at the same shipyard though...)

Posted by Glenmore 2017-01-16 15:22|| 2017-01-16 15:22|| Front Page Top

#10 'The Puge' does look a little crowded though,
47.553538° -122.649150°
Google Earth: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Farragut Avenue, Bremerton, WA

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Poodle3919 2017-01-16 15:58|| 2017-01-16 15:58|| Front Page Top

#11 More BS than produced by half the cows in India

Posted by John Frum 2017-01-16 16:28|| 2017-01-16 16:28|| Front Page Top

#12 As Injun Bucket8891 said in #5, MilSpec and hardening is mandatory. Otherwise, just going through a lighting storm is enough to take out the electronics.

The US Military isn't stupid, often dumb yes, but not stupid, they know they have to survive combat.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-01-16 18:01|| 2017-01-16 18:01|| Front Page Top

#13 #8 is correct. Three are based in San Diego, and I can only remember one time all 3 were ported

Posted by Frank G 2017-01-16 21:24|| 2017-01-16 21:24|| Front Page Top

#14 Looked at google earth. The Stennis and Regan are there. The other 4 carriers are former mothballs and ready to be scrapped - CV62 is visible on one, and that is USS Independence. Other 3 look to be same class, and that would make them the former USS Forrestal USS Constellation and USS Ranger.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-01-16 23:00|| 2017-01-16 23:00|| Front Page Top

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