An Israeli attack on nuclear sites in Iran would go beyond air strikes from fighter planes and likely include electronic warfare against Iran’s electric grid, Internet, cellphone network, and emergency frequencies for fire and police services, according to a report by Eli Lake, a correspondent for Newsweek and the Daily Beast.
For much of the last decade, writes Lake, “Israel has been assembling a multibillion-dollar array of high-tech weapons that would allow it to jam, blind, and deafen Tehran’s defenses in the case of a pre-emptive aerial strike.”
U.S. intelligence officials are reported as saying that Israel has developed a weapon capable of mimicking a maintenance cellphone signal that commands a cell network to “sleep,” effectively stopping transmissions. The Israelis “also have jammers capable of creating interference within Iran’s emergency frequencies for first responders,” they said.
In the 2007 attack on a suspected nuclear site in Syria, Israeli planes “spoofed” the enemy’s air-defense radars, “at first making it appear that no jets were in the sky and then in an instant making the radar believe the sky was filled with hundreds of planes,” Lake writes.
Israel also likely would exploit a in Iran’s big-city electric grids, which are not “air-gapped”-meaning they are connected to the Internet and therefore vulnerable to a Stuxnet-style cyberattack-officials reportedly said.
The likely delivery method for the electronic warfare mechanisms would be an unmanned aerial vehicle the size of a jumbo jet known as the Eitan. The Daily Beast quotes U.S. and Israeli officials as saying that one version of the drone can fly up to 45 straight hours.
It is not clear why U.S. officials would want to leak any of this information – unless they were bluffing, or trying to derail Israeli plans for a strike.
Read more: Israel National News
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why must you discuss everything
I think that your last sentence delegitamizes this whole article.
Nonsense.
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At this point, why would Israel share intelligence with other nations? Possibly, the US leaks were based on US intelligence. It’s been said that Panetta is more focused on holding Israel back than on holding Iran back.
DOES ANYBODY KNOW IF THIS WILL EFFECT THE UPCOMING SALE OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE?
israel has the capabilities of having a full fledged war on iran but the UN (united nicompoops) will stop them
And then you have Pollard locked up!!??
dont you think this stuff is better not being public knowledge or gossip?