To Prevent Cyber Snooping, the U.S. Navy Is Relying on WWII-Era Communications

Popular Mechanics via Yahoo ^ | August 16th, 2019 | Kyle Mizokami

[Redcitizen]

Could burn a F-18 hornet tire at the end of the carrier deck to make smoke signals.

[blackdog]

Bean bags because of treasonous self absorbed folks like Hillary Clinton, Sid Blumenthal, JOHN Brennan, James Clapper, Peter Sztrok, and most of the FIB.

[ASA Vet]

I never thought of the Soviets as "Cooperative targets."

Often careless or incompetent, but never cooperative.

[GreyFriar]

Perhaps the word was ‘secure’. I”m glad your father made it home and you, the 130 crew and the F-102 pilot as well.

[Mariner]

“I can MANUALLY give you a bearing in under 30 secs if I have the freq already dialed in.”

But you don’t on a rotating Frequency schedule. A Change every 4 hours whether it’s used or not.

And Morse Code over HF only emits when the key is depressed, the only for fractions of a second at a time.

Can you get a reliable bearing on that? One that you would bet your life on?

[P.O.E.]

IIRC, read somewhere that backwards countries would be more likely to survive nuclear armageddon, because their technology would still work.

Hand water pumps, e.g.

[jeffersondem]

“The US Navy still can use Morse Code in emergency situations.”

That is good to hear. Thank you for the information.

[Lurker]

“It ALWAYS gives a bearing to the *source*.

Skywave UHF doesn’t.

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[mrsmith]

Impressive!
I, too, hope they still have such capability.

[reed13k]

Last I heard they are still using signal lights, semaphore, and signal flags as well. Still have to be able to communicate in Emission Controls or if the radio goes out.

[CurlyDave]

...It ALWAYS gives a bearing to the *source*...

A narrow-beam signal to another asset can be rebroadcast, only giving away the bearing of the secondary asset.

Think optical uplink to a satellite, downlink to a wide area.

[Does so]

What’s the beanbag message say?

“Attack...repeat...Attack”.

They’re kidding, right?

[Clutch Martin]

“VIA MORSE CODE”

Fists are almost like fingerprints.

By the mid 70’s the good US military CW ops were Coast Guard. Globally, probably the Soviets.

[mabarker1]

Do You mean Navajo Code Talkers ?

[PIF]

Story appeared on the 15th on the War zone:
Navy Ships Look To WWII Era Message-Filled Bean Bags To Communicate Without Radios
Helicopters would rapidly ferry the messages between ships in a reboot of a communications method that dates back to World War II. By Joseph Trevithick August 15, 2019 PS: all the branches of the Soviet military used the same code system in those 'olden days'. Other than the US navy practicing location security, US Army troops would often give their location in the 'clear' (voice) down to which tree in which farm they were sitting under along with direction how to find the farm ... always thought that was so laughable when we heard them

[a fool in paradise]

yes

[mabarker1]

What’s the beanbag message say?

SEND MORE CORN, FLOUR TORTILLAS AND HOT SAUCE PLEASE.

[_Jim]

re: “Skywave UHF doesn’t.”

A contradiction in terms; UHF yields a line-of-sight terrestrial comms, there is no “skywave”.

Maybe you mean SW (shortwave) using ionospheric prop?

[_Jim]

re: “But you don’t on a rotating Frequency schedule. “

I SPECIFIED “IF I HAD THE FREQUENCY ALREADY DIALED IN”.

Please pay attention, I hate repeating myself needlessly.

[_Jim]

re: “Think optical uplink to a satellite,”

We’re talking radio here ...