would cause, although airlines up and down have said this would be a huge issue. let s back up, pete. why is 5g high-speed internet potentially dangerous when it s close to airports? the issue here is the radio spectrum. it s called the c-band. and what happens is the 5g network is so close on that radio frequency spectrum to what are called radar altimeters. sensitive instruments on board commercial airliners, cargo planes, helicopters. particularly important for commercial airliners because it is used, sends a radio beam to the ground and back up to get a hyperaccurate reading of how high the plane is above the ground which is used in critical phases of flight, especially when the plane is very low to the ground when the visibility is the least. so this is a real problem the airlines say. in fact, united s ceo called it the number one safety issue for the airline and that it will not compromise on that. the airlines are warning this could create enormous scheduling
it s all said and done..take time we saw you yesterday. this sounds pretty scary. the airlines say this ere is real threat to your safety and they say this will only mean more delays and more cancellations. we ve seen about 1,000 on a typical day because of this 5g issue. what is at issue is the power from the 5g transmitter towers, especially when they are near airports. they operate on a similar radio spectrum to what is called a radar altimeter that airliners use, especially when they are low to the ground and those critic al moments right before landing. now the ceos of all of the major airlines have written the biden administration to say there should be another delay of the 5g rollout and already delayed by two weeks. it says the ripple effect across
disruptions, thousands of flight cancellations they say. what is at issue here is that the 5g radio spectrum operates on a similar spectrum to what is called a radar altimeter. that s an instrument in commercial airliners and cargo planes and helicopters that beams a radio wave up, giving a hypersensitive look at how high an airplane is above the ground, and this could cause errors in that instrument, these airlines say. so they have set this lever, ten airline ceos, to the department of transportation and the biden administration calling for immediate action here. this rollout was already delayed by two weeks. they say it should be delayed again. and in this letter, they say the ripple effectings across both passenger and cargo operations are workforce and the broader economy are simply incalculable. to be blunt, the nation s commerce will grind to a halt. a white house source tells me there are talks taking place right now between the fcc,
only area of warfare that human beings cannot perceive we cannot taste it, hear it or see it. the spectrum, which is why radio waves reside, and they carry orders to soldiers, sending them back to their commanders to make decisions. that s why electronic warfare s so important, because it targets that use of the electromagnetic spectrum. how would you say it has been used in this conflict so far? have you seen evidence of it? can you pinpoint it by looking at development on the ground? well, like our development on the ground? well, like your colleagues, development on the ground? well, like your colleagues, it s development on the ground? well, like your colleagues, it s very - like your colleagues, it s very difficult to get very definitive information now, but what we are seeing is a surprising lack in some ways of russia s attempts to control that radio spectrum, to attack it and ensure that ukrainians cannot use it to their own advantage. at a very superficial level, we see
been using their own anti aircraft guns and missiles and should also attack parts of the radio spectrum drones depend on to fly. they typically use a radial length from the pilot on the ground to the pilot in the air and two to three gigahertz band with means that that is a similar bandwidth to what we would use for our mobile phones in our everyday lives and the drones themselves also use a gps link with to get information in that position from a satellite so in theory by jamming those two radio links you should be able to knock the drone out of the fight and the loss of control through those radial length should either cause the radio links should either cause the drone