Internet jammer can be bought for $55, can bring down plane

Anything fox says, I’ll take with a very large handful of salt, fearmongering is their game.. but a jammer that can bring down a plane? Must of been a quiet day of the office when they came across that one on page 496 of results on “things that can scare the public because not much news has happened today”
Despite the risk being extremely low, they’ve obviously forgotten to consider that pilots are trained to deal with not just communication interference, but complete communication shutdown.
I’d say a nutter with a Stinger is more likely to be more of a problem than someone with a piece of hardware that most likely cost close to sod all to manufacture.

A well-aimed housebrick is much cheaper, and would probably stand a far better chance.. :diablo:

It seems that they are mainly used to scramble car ‘Tracker ‘ Systems , but I suppose its just another tool in the scrotes toolbox
It just makes you wonder why the manufacturers should go to so much trouble to tool up for this anti social electronic ‘toy’ , and what the potential market is , its not as though it brings up the winning reels on one arm bandits …..does It :eek:or forecasts the lottery numbers :rolleyes: whats the manufacturers ‘Blurb’ on this gizmo ?

So where does the could bring down aircraft come from?

Take it out of the box and throw it at the propeller :p

Typical Fox News article :rolleyes:

From its own words

“The risk is low for airplanes, which use ground-based radars for guidance and have a back-up navigation system that does not depend on satellites. Military personnel use a private GPS network. But GPS jamming could nonetheless cause confusion in the cockpit as pilots have to switch to back up navigation systems. And maritime shipments that rely on GPS coordinates for finding port locations could face problems as well. “

So where does the could bring down aircraft come from?

just another case of scare the bejesus out of air travellers

Even if it was used to jam the aircraft GPS, the aircraft has other means of determining its position. I am sure those “experts” that advocate that these could bring down an aircraft know this?