Military Secretive About GPS Blackout Over California: Testing Something That Disrupts GPS Over a Huge AreaBy Mac Slavo The FAA put out a notice warning about disruptions that may affect aircraft in general, and particularly those reliant upon GPS, from testing based at the Navys China Lake Naval Weapons Center, some 150 miles north of Los Angeles during June 9, 21, 23, 28 and 30. As AVWeb noted: A Notam (PDF) is warning operators of all aircraft relying on GPS of widespread GPS outages starting Tuesday throughout the Southwest and especially southern California. Although the FAA doesnt go into detail, it seems the military is testing something that can disrupt GPS over a huge area, centered on China Lake, California, home of the Navys China Lake Naval Weapons Center. On Tuesday, June 7, the FAA is warning that GPS signals down to 50 feet AGL could be unreliable or unavailable between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. local time over a radius of 253 nautical miles, which includes the L.A. Basin, Bay area and Las Vegas. There will be further outages of similar potential duration June 9, 21, 23, 28 and 30. The circles expand with altitude and at 40,000 feet the interference will affect a circular area of the Southwest 950 nautical miles across, reaching central Oregon, Colorado and New Mexico. The tests will potentially knock out all GPS-reliant services including WAAS, GBAS and, notably, ADS-B. What kind of electromagnetic interference is the military messing with that will result in GPS outages all across the western portion of the U.S.? The Navy and its other military counterparts arent specifying and have so far refused to release further information about the scope of the tests or the type of technology being used. According to Tech Times: The mysterious part of the news, however, is that there is no indication on what kind of device will the military be testing that would lead to such GPS outages in the southwestern United States. [] With the FAA and the Navy both keeping their mouths shut on the experiments that will be carried out the military will be testing more potent systems that are able to disrupt the GPS of unmanned and manned aircraft. Whatever it is, there is a spooky sense about the secrecy and the vulnerability of so many gadgets that are reliant on technology which militaries can so easily disrupt over such a widespread area. GPS location services in car systems, cell phones and other electronic devices all operate on the same basis, and are essentially hackable. It is interesting that the the outages could particularly affect certain private business jets: Radar jamming and other disruptions using radio frequency have been in use for decades now, but are becoming more sophisticated and targeted. These signals have also been weaponized for use in disrupting crowd behavior and could also affect the weather or shut down electronics activities for entire geographic areas. There have been plenty of strange events in recent times that have raised questions about how far the U.S. and Russia have gone back down the road of Cold War. Are these weapons and devices being used covertly against adversaries and conflict zones? Could they account for disruptions and other events here in the States? Dont let any electronic device put your life in jeopardy if it stops working or cant get a signal. Know what youre doing and where you are going, and be prepared to continuity in the event that none of those things operate. Read more: Click here to subscribe: Join over one million monthly readers and receive breaking news, strategies, ideas and commentary. You can read more from Mac Slavo at his site SHTFplan.com This is in lieu of the Mig that flew over the Black Sea pulsed a US Destroyer crashed all of its electronics leaving them helpless, like sitting ducks with nothing working a couple of months ago ..via new Russian Scaler tech so the US is focusing their attention on this stategic vulnerability. as the scuttlebutt goes. 