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The way challenge phrases it is like they didn't even know their communication was being jammed!

More probably they knew immediately their GPS signal were being jammed. What they were trying to figure out was probably how the signal was jammed, like whether it's satellite related or it's through other means.

challenge said:

during the US-japan naval exercise, a single EA-6 shut down the entire communication network,it took them 3 days to realized that there communication is being jam.

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if you mean China's communication network, I am very interested to know more, I've never heard that. Any source or just a wild rumour

antiterror13 said:

if you mean China's communication network, I am very interested to know more, I've never heard that. Any source or just a wild rumour

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I'm keen to know too.

antiterror13 said:

if you mean China's communication network, I am very interested to know more, I've never heard that. Any source or just a wild rumour

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t2contra said:

I'm keen to know too.

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A wild rumour which "big shrimps" back it.

Seriously, anyone expecting "offical story"? by who? regarding what? (one admit it invaded another; or another admited she can not fend off one's invasion?)

One big rumour was that the prowler actually flys in several hundred miles inland, to make that "jammed everything" in effect - who would ever officially admit that?

China learnt the lesson, and made her tougher, that's for sure.

Red___Sword said:

One big rumour was that the prowler actually flys in several hundred miles inland, to make that "jammed everything" in effect - who would ever officially admit that?

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I definitely can discount this rumor. The US would not fly a prowler along the coast, let alone several hundred miles inland and would have been chased away before it got that close.

I highly doubt it flew over land. There are plenty of non-military means for retaliation especially in context of how today they complain about China flying or sailing too close to Japan yet still in international airspace and waters. If the US were that bold, you would see Raptors flying over China. The reason why that doesn't happen is fear of the consequences whether from China or from something going wrong and risk losing something.

t2contra said:

I definitely can discount this rumor. The US would not fly a prowler along the coast, let alone several hundred miles inland and would have been chased away before it got that close.

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Unhhh.... pre-1996 China, is a different China. We can discount many rumors, but this one... let's say many believes it.

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The thing is the prowler is not a stealth aircraft. For the story to be believable, it must also explain how it manage to evade ground radars.

Didn't this happen during the third taiwan strait crisis, if it happened at all?
I can't imagine it was during an exercise -- sending aircraft directly into another country's airspace isn't an exercise even in american terms.

any details beyond that I think we can't really speculate (#challenge)

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Unhhh.... pre-1996 China, is a different China. We can discount many rumors, but this one... let's say many believes it.

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Flying over land is gross aggression and is different from crossing airspace which is away from land but over waters. And as Quickie says, the Prowler is not a stealth aircraft and should have been detected and would definitely be shot down.