IAF planes faces GPS spoofing while carrying relief for Myanmar quake victims

Indian Air Force’s transport aircraft carrying relief materials to earthquake-hit Myanmar late last month faced “GPS spoofing”, triggering security concerns as pilots were forced to rely on the backup systems, sources in the military establishment said on Sunday.

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India sent the first consignment of relief materials to Myanmar on March 29 in a C-130J aircraft and its pilots reported that the plane’s GPS signal was tampered with when it was in Myanmar’s airspace, the sources told PTI.

New Delhi sent a total of six military transport aircraft to Myanmar transporting relief materials, field hospitals and rescue teams and a majority of them experienced GPS spoofing, they said.