This is the stuff some nightmares are made of. Times of India reports from New Delhi:
Indian aircraft deployed to provide rescue and relief supplies to quake-hit Myanmar, under Operation Brahma since March 29, have faced cyber-attacks in the form of “spoofing” of their satellite-based GPS signals.
Sources said it’s difficult to establish the forces behind the GPS spoofing of IAF aircraft in the airspace of Myanmar, where China has made major strategic inroads and non-state militant outfits are active against the country’s regime.
“GPS spoofing, which usually misleads pilots about their location with wrong coordinates, is common in operational areas. The IAF pilots in Myanmar switched over to the backup inertial navigation system (INS), which is very accurate with the latest ring-laser gyroscopes, to complete their missions,” a source told TOI.
Read more at TOI.