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Being just dumb garbage (h/t to our drive-by Admiral.), you have to wonder why THAAD overseas and Aegis ashore have not interfered with aircraft communication. You also have to wonder if they're radiating at a level that is doing the RF/EM thingy to commercial aviation, why they would be flying into Guam unescorted at all. The NOTAM proh…
Being just dumb garbage (h/t to our drive-by Admiral.), you have to wonder why THAAD overseas and Aegis ashore have not interfered with aircraft communication. You also have to wonder if they're radiating at a level that is doing the RF/EM thingy to commercial aviation, why they would be flying into Guam unescorted at all. The NOTAM prohibiting commercial flights would probably already be several days old.
FAA would worry about all radars.
A THAAD battery is set up at Guam. The TPY 2 probably puts out enough RF energy to concern aircraft and life forms in the array spread at close range. I do not know TPY 2 other than X band which is extreme high frequency and uses a lot of volts.
I won’t go into a couple of war stories but radars like MDA handle can do strange things to electronics in their close range, some not discovered until the first unexpected event.
It is not beyond an SPY 6 longer range than TPY 2 deployment, that would require site design in the radar over the DDG usage.
I have not found what else MDA is doing for intercept, sensors and command/control. Probably Patriots around high value points.
MDA running this thru Army!
The P-8 would (will) have some of the same problems.
“Drive-by Admiral”. I wish I had come up with it.
Me too. I assume you are talking about the Frankenstein Mikey?
Indeed. But allow me to register “Tampon Tom™” as Yardley’s new moniker before anyone else does.
The old Continental Micronesia operation (now part of United Airlines), which opened up for business during the Vietnam war, hubs out of Guam. GUM is actually quite busy with civil traffic.
Its the way folks get around to all the old WWII haunts...
https://i0.wp.com/crankyflier.com/wp-content/uploads/2024_10_10-asiaua.jpeg?w=1000&ssl=1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Micronesia
How do you think all those contractors get out and about in that part of the world?
CMI plucked the EP-3 crew out of Hainan in 2001...
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/51343387/photo/a-continental-boeing-737-departs-from-haikou-airport-on-chinas-hainan-island-12-april-2001.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=IIjsZGs6PlfH_0_510A2pyve6i-ThTAHJ58bjSZ0_JA=
https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=83953
https://www.hazegray.org/features/vq1homecoming/hainan.htm
BTW, the Dutch Flag carrier KNILM Royal Dutch Indies Airways operated in the Indies region into the Spring of 1942. the surviving aircraft then escaped to Australia.
Airlines operating in warzones is common. Look at BEI.
https://thejavagoldblog.wordpress.com/background-info-book-1/airlines/knilm-the-airline-of-the-dutch-east-indies/