Malaysia Plane Hidden With Electronic Weapon? 20 Hi-Tech EW Defense Passengers
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Update: March 11, 2014, 12:00 P.M.
Villagers near Marang, on Malaysia’s eastern coast, told police they heard a “loud and frightening noise” around 1.20am Saturday morning, according to Tom Phillips, a Telegraph correspondent in Kuala Lumpur.
Alias Salleh, a 36-year-old truck driver told Malaysia’s The Sun Daily, he and friends had run towards the source of the noise, “but did not see anything unusual.”
“The noise sounded like “the fan of a jet engine,” Mr Salleh added.
“My friends and I heard the ringing noise for about two minutes,” said Mohd Yusri Mohd Yusof, a 34-year-old villager.
Read the rest of this update here: Evidence Malaysia Plane Hidden By Electronic Weapon: Villagers Heard But Could Not See It
Original story: Malaysia Plane Hidden With Electronic Weapon? 20 High-Tech EW Defense Passengers
Four people in particular who boarded the missing Malaysian plane are being investigated, two for stolen passports and two other passport-related suspects.
Those four suspects plus twenty people on board involved in cutting
edge electric technology. some used for defense purposes, raise
a question with this reporter about electronic weaponry hiding the plane.
Added to the
tragic mystery is why not one country checked databases for information
about stolen passports used to board the Malaysia Airlines flight.
New
electronic weapons allow jamming, blinding, deafening and more, so that a
plane could possibly vanish from radar detection and security systems
would not be activated. Basic radar Electronic Counter-Measure strategies used
in electronic warfare (EW) are: 1) radar interference, 2) target
modifications, and 3) changing electrical properties of air.
For example, a U.S. intelligence assessment described to The Daily Beast
by current and former U.S. intelligence officials, concluded any
Israeli attack on Iran would go far beyond fighter plane airstrikes and
would likely deploy EW against Iran’s electric grid, Internet, cellphone
network, and emergency frequencies for firemen and police officers.
“For example,
Israel has developed a weapon capable of mimicking a maintenance
cellphone signal that commands a cell network to “sleep,” effectively
stopping transmissions, officials confirmed. The Israelis also have
jammers capable of creating interference within Iran’s emergency
frequencies for first responders.”
In a 2007,
“the Syrian military got a taste of this warfare when Israeli planes
‘spoofed’ the country’s air-defense radars, at first making it appear
that no jets were in the sky and then in an instant making the radar
believe the sky was filled with hundreds of planes.”
Last year, it
was announced that new stealth technology makes airplanes invisible not
only to radar, it also renders them hidden to the human eye as well —
“just like an invisibility cloak in a Hollywood sci-fi thriller,” reported Military.com.
China had
just touted its work on a “cloaking” technology using a hexagonal array
of glass-like panels to bend light around an object, obscuring it from
view, as though hidden by an invisibility cloak. Experts confirmed that the technology was legit — and not unlike American and European projects from the past few years.
“The general public … might not hear about
how far the U.S. has really come, because it is and should remain
classified,” firearms expert Chris Sajnog, a former Navy SEAL, told
FoxNews.com. “Other countries are still playing catch-up — but they’re
closing the gap.”
Military.com stated, “But while classified
work progresses, several public projects from universities and military
supply companies show just how real this futuristic technology is.”
“Major arms
developers such as BAE Systems readily acknowledge work on this kind of
technology, such as the Adaptiv program, which aims to hide armored
vehicles.”
“The U.S. military is among many who have
expressed interest in Adaptiv, which could be transferred to other
platforms, such as ships and helicopters,” said Mike Sweeney, a
spokesman for BAE.
On the other hand, some experts dispute these new technologies can work at all.
“Invisibility
cloak is a poorly chosen term,” Thomas Way, associate professor of
computing science at Villanova University, wrote to FoxNews.com in an
email. “Invisible to what? We already have stealth aircraft that are
invisible to radar (usually), but there is absolutely no way given our
current understanding of physics that something could be made invisible
to the naked eye… If that’s what they are claiming, it’s a hoax.”
In Electronic Warfare jargon, however, electronic countermeasure exists. ECM is an electrical or electronic device designed to trick or deceive radar, sonar or other detection systems, like infrared (IR) or lasers.
ECM can be used offensively and defensively to deny targeting information to an enemy.
The system
can “make the real target appear to disappear or move about randomly. It
is used effectively to protect aircraft from guided missiles.
“Most air
forces use ECM to protect their aircraft from attack. It has also been
deployed by military ships and recently on some advanced tanks to fool
laser/IR guided missiles. It is frequently coupled with stealth advances
so that the ECM systems have an easier job. Offensive ECM often takes
the form of jamming. Defensive ECM includes using blip enhancement and
jamming of missile terminal homers.”
Austin-based Freescale
Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) launched a major initiative dedicated to
serving RF power needs of U.S. aerospace and defense (A&D) sector.
It has a team of specialists dedicated to supporting defense customers.
Freescale
confirmed yesterday that 20 of its employees were on Malaysia Airlines
Flight MH370, twelve from Malaysia and eight from China. The company’s
key product solutions include those for electric vehicles, as this reporter highlighted yesterday:
“Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) is a global leader in embedded processing solutions, providing industry leading products that are advancing the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets,” the company says on its website and in its statement today. ”… our technologies are the foundation for the innovations that make our world greener, safer, healthier and more connected.”Freescale says its “key applications and end-markets include: automotive safety,hybrid and all-electric vehicles, next generation wireless infrastructure, smart energy management, portable medical devices, consumer appliances and smart mobile devices. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing and sales operations around the world. www.freescale.com
- Battlefield communications
- Avionics
- HF through L- and S-Band radar
- Missile guidance
- Electronic warfare
- Identification, friend or foe (IFF)
Human rights regarding security and privacy, possibly terrorism
Evidence of terrorism and
the human rights related to security and privacy mount regarding the
plane that vanished from radar with 239 people on board Saturday, less
than an hour after leaving Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bound for Beijing.
Family and friends are suffering and furstrated with the lack of answers
and even clues.
“By late
Sunday, the lack of answers — or even many clues — to the plane’s
disappearance added to misery of family members left behind,: the New
York Times reported. “With Malaysian officials refusing to release many
details of their investigation and sometimes presenting conflicting
information, the families and friends of victims became increasingly
frustrated.”
Officials say
fragments spotted in the ocean ealier in the day are not from where the
plane last had contact are not plane debris.
While everyone who boarded the plane are being investigated, four are under particular investigation. Two had stolen passports to
board the now vanished Malaysia plane. They bought their tickets with
two other people who boarded the plane and are also targets of the
investigation.
A Chinese
national, whose passport number was listed on the passenger manifest,
did not board the plane, is still in China and this individual’s
passport was never stolen, China’s state media reported.
The stolen
passport carriers and the other two suspects have increased officials’
suspicions that the event is one of terrorism, but officials stress that
the event has not been declared a terrorist event.
Hishammuddin
Hussein, who holds two ministerial positions, said that “the four names
are with me,” but added that the investigation was focusing on “the
entire passenger manifest.” Hussein also said investigators from the FBI
have joined the probe.
Names of all of the passengers is on the manifest here.
Interpol said
not one country checked its database for information about stolen
passports used to board the Malaysia Airlines flight.
Officials had
said what might have been parts of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane
were spotted, but later they confirm that the debris is not part of the
plane.
The Wall
Street Journal tweets Sunday morning had indicated the fragments might
be part of the plane, but Vietnamese officials had warned that it was
too early to confirm the debris was from the plane.
Earlier,
Malaysia’s air force chief told reporters that military radar indicated
that the plane may have turned from its flight route before losing
contact.
“There is a
distinct possibility the airplane did a turn-back, deviating from the
course,” Malaysian air force chief General Rodzali Daud said Sunday,
citing radar data.
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the Boeing 777′s systems would have set off alarm bells.
“When there
is an air turn-back, the pilot would be unable to proceed as planned,”
he said, adding authorities were “quite puzzled” over the situation.
Sunday, air force chief Rodzali Daud did not say which direction the plane possibly took when it apparently went off route.
“We are
trying to make sense of this,” he said at a media conference. “The
military radar indicated that the aircraft may have made a turn back and
in some parts, this was corroborated by civilian radar.”
Pilots are
supposed to inform the airline and traffic control authorities if the
plane does start to return, according to Malaysia Airlines Chief
Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya.
“From what we have, there was no such distress signal or distress call per se, so we are equally puzzled,” he said.
Suspected
fragments were located around 50 miles from southwest of Tho Chu Island,
according to the Wall Street Journal tweets, but these have been found
to be debris not from the plane.
The fragments
were believed to be a composite inner door and a piece of the tail,
Vietnam’s ministry of information and communication said in a posting on
its website. They were located some 80 kilometers south-southwest of
Tho Chu island.
A photograph of one fragment floating in the water was released, as seen above.
Flight MH370
had relayed no distress signal, indications of rough weather, or other
signs of trouble. Malaysia’s national carrier and the Boeing 777-200
model used on the route are known for solid safety records.
Relatives of
the missing passengers camped out at the main international airport in
China’s capital, bemoaning lack of news Sunday.
Instead of the airline, a friend had contacted one of the loved ones.
“The airline
company didn’t contact me, it was a friend,” a middle-aged woman
surnamed Nan told reporters, holding back tears, after finding out her
brother-in-law was on the flight.
“I can’t understand the airline company. They should have contacted the families first thing,” she said.
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