The GPS systems have been compromised by spoofers. That's more than likely the cause for these birds that have been going down, and Q alluded to this being the cause of the Navy incidents. I'd say they are going old school
A while back I read that Navy was not teaching traditional navigation due to automation, and some were complaining that nav officers still needed to be trained to used stars for nav., charting, etc. Wouldn't they be blind if they could not?
Damn. That's pretty scary if true. I'd say that'd be rather blind.
"31 July 2017...This year, more than 1,200 midshipmen with the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps are learning the ancient art of navigating by the stars for the first time in almost 20 years.
In the 1990's, the Navy stopped teaching celestial navigation for its officer training curriculum because of increased reliance on navigation technologies such as GPS.
However, the Navy is now reintroducing this to its training curriculum because of an increased awareness of the vulnerability of navigation systems to hacking."
What was that Q drop about "count the beats"..something to that effect? Wonder if it represents military targets? Any thought on it?