Aircraft disappearing from radar

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Interesting;
_http://rt.com/news/165636-aircraft-disappear-radfars-austria/

"A total of 13 aircraft suddenly vanished off radars for about 25 minutes on two occasions over Austria and neighboring countries, Austria's flight safety monitor said, calling for an EU probe into the “unprecedented” incidents."
 
An RT update:
Electronic war games blamed for jets vanishing off radars in Europe
_http://rt.com/news/165872-military-exercises-planes-disappearing/

Saturday June 14, 2014 - Electronic military exercises were to blame for the mysterious disappearance of dozens of planes from air-traffic control screens in the heart of Europe, Slovak authorities have said.

About 50 planes temporarily disappeared from radars in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia between June 5 and June 10, Austria's flight safety monitor said.

German and Czech air traffic control also reported brief disappearances.

Slovakia blamed the outages on planned military exercises.

"The disappearance of objects on radar screens was connected with a planned military exercise which took place in various parts of Europe...whose goal was the interruption of radio communication frequencies," the Slovak air traffic services said in a statement.

"This activity also caused the temporary disappearance of several targets on the radar display, while in the meantime the planes were in radio contact with air traffic controllers and continued in their flight normally.”

Right after the problem with the radars was detected, the organizing party was made aware and the exercises were stopped, Slovakia's air traffic services added.

Slovakia did not mention a military force involved in the exercises, but Austrian media pointed towards NATO.

Austrian daily Kurier reported on June 7 that the first disappearance problems coincided with NATO conducting electronic warfare exercises in Hungary.

During the exercises NATO was reportedly using devices that can interfere with enemy radar, according to the Telegraph.

German air traffic control stated that it is trying to identify the cause of the outages.

"Planes disappeared from screens for a matter of seconds, here and there. The outages were sporadic and not grave...It must have been an external source of disruption,” a spokesperson said.

Authorities said the outages did not pose any serious threat.
 
In retrospect, could 3 "X-class" Solar Flares hitting the Earth, be the impetus for the mysterious disappearance of dozens of planes from air-traffic control screens?

3 "X-Class" Solar Flares Hit Earth; Disrupt Flights, Communications
_http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-12/3-x-class-solar-flares-hit-earth-disrupt-flights-communications (Video)

Thursday June 12, 2014 - The sun has had three major "X-Class" solar flares on its surface in the past two days that have affected communications on Earth and could send a shockwave through Earth this Friday (the 13th), according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. As ABC reports, the “solar events” caused brief blackouts in high frequency communications when they struck, twice on Tuesday morning and once this morning.

One of the flares created a “coronal mass ejection” that actually could come into contact with Earth on Friday, according to NOAA. The ejection is essentially a huge cloud of plasma that could hit the Earth and cause a shock wave, affecting communications systems. If an ejection were to hit Earth on Friday, scientists expect it would only cause a minor geo-magnetic storm, according to NOAA.

So, World Cup is on... and its Friday 13th (and it's a full moon)... stay home!
 
Talked about with my friend who is military radar operator not very far from where this "incident" occurred. He told me that it seems that there was some radar jamming equipment used there during military exercise, but question remains why did this occur on such a large area and why did military use this jamming devices "against" civil equipment and endanger safety of civilian flights this way? He has told me, that this technology requires to point the jamming beam towards target, so if it was military involved, they have done it deliberately if this story is true and not some kind of cover.
 
NATO says not to blame for planes vanishing from radar
_http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/15/us-europe-airplanes-safety-idUSKBN0EQ12J20140615

Sunday June 15, 2014 -
(Reuters) - NATO said on Sunday it was not to blame for recent incidents in which dozens of aircraft briefly vanished from air traffic control radar screens in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The Slovak state Air Traffic Services company said on Friday that the brief disappearance of planes from radar screens on June 5 and 10 was connected to a military exercise whose goal was "the interruption of radio communication frequencies."

It did not identify the military force organising the exercise, but Austrian media said it was NATO.

The military alliance, in response to a request for comment, said it did carry out some training that involved "localised and low-power jamming" in the skies over Hungary during the June 2-6 period and that it was currently conducting similar training in southern Italy from June 9-20.

However, it said no jamming was conducted on June 5.

"Our assessment is that NATO did not cause any interference with civilian air traffic control frequencies. When NATO conducts such exercises, we coordinate our activities with relevant civilian authorities and only use frequencies provided to us by the host nation," a NATO military officer said.

NATO AWACS surveillance aircraft that have been flying regular missions over Europe to monitor Russian activities near Ukraine could not have caused the interference because they did not have a jamming capability, the officer said.

The European air navigation safety organisation EUROCONTROL and the European Air Safety Agency are investigating the incidents.

"We will cooperate with these authorities in order to be absolutely sure that there is no connection between our exercises and the frequency interference issues that have been reported," the NATO officer said
 
From the the Washington Post: Saturday, June 21, 2014

WAPO Reporting: FOUR Air Force Predator Drones Have Vanished Into Thin Air Over Afghanistan
_http://xrepublic.tv/node/9522
 
angelburst29 said:
From the the Washington Post: Saturday, June 21, 2014

WAPO Reporting: FOUR Air Force Predator Drones Have Vanished Into Thin Air Over Afghanistan
_http://xrepublic.tv/node/9522
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That is certainly no loss! Would like to see all the drones go thru a worm hole and never come back!!
 
This one happened in May. Another case of vanishing plane, this time in the Black Sea. Very suspicious!

Allegedly the USS Donald Cook's radar was jammed by a Russian plane, thus disappearing from its view.


Russian aircraft buzz US Navy destroyer: How big a deal?

The incident took place over the weekend in the international waters of the Black Sea – ‘a long way from US Navy bases and at the front doorstep’ of the Russian military, a naval analyst says.
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This one to better get the 'incident' dynamics:

Russia Claims Its Bomber Jammed U.S. Destroyer

Donald Cook’s Aegis system tracked the Su-24 approaching, when suddenly the ship’s sensor displays went blank, according to the Russian Website. The swing-wing Su-24 flew over the destroyer, turned and performed a simulated missile attack.

“Then it turned and repeated the maneuver. And did so 12 times,” Russian Radio claimed.

The Russian Khibiny jammer that allegedly took down Aegis is named for a mountain range on Russia’s Kola Peninsula. “Khibiny is the newest complex for radio-electronic jamming of the enemy,” Russian Radio explained. “They will be installed on all the advanced Russian planes.”

How credible is this story? First off, how would Russian operators even know the destroyer’s Aegis had shut down? The Pentagon insisted shortly after the incident that Donald Cook was “more than capable of defending itself.”

And Russian Radio stated that after the alleged jamming, Donald Cook “rushed into a port in Romania.”

“There, all the 27 members of the crew filed a letter of resignation,” the Website claimed. “It seems that all 27 people have written that they are not going to risk their lives.”

Um, Donald Cook has a crew of around 280 people. There are no verifiable reports that any of the ship’s sailors resigned. That’s not the sort of thing that happens, well, ever in the U.S. Navy.

Besides, why would Russia would give the U.S. a chance to analyze its latest jamming system? Spoofing a solitary warship isn’t worth betraying an purported major leap in electronic-warfare capability.

Still, it’s not hard to see why Russian Radio would disseminate this propaganda. The site quotes a Russian political scientist saying the jamming of Donald Cook, along with a long string of U.S. missile defense failures, proves that America’s multi-billion-dollar missile defenses don’t work. [...]
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Going on recent C's transcripts, it was EM disturbance / bleedthrough?

"The radar glitches were also due to EM anomalies."
_http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,35207.0.html
 
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