We have just seen 2 British military helicopters flying over in England and had an odd occurence. Tried to film them with my phone to show my 10yo son (who is really into military stuff). The phone recorded video and voice clearly up until I managed to get the camera focussed on each aircraft in turn. Then the screen and audio goes fuzzy and blank. EDIT - on further checking the sound is audible but the image is blank. At this point I was pointing the phone up at the aircraft in open air - no building or car in the way.
Audio and video resumes when I moved the camera away from the craft to switch the camera off. Any military pedes know if it could be some sort of jamming signal or countermeasures? If so is it odd that this would be deployed on a sunny day in a non hostile area? There’s been a lot of aircraft flying about for the last couple of weeks (chinooks and lynx and sea kings) and have not had any probs filming them before... 🤔 Almond status - ACTIVATED
Show us.
Post what you recorded.
https://archive.org/details/img-8887_202107
Will do when I get home - havent uploaded video to here before so need to read instructions to make sure I do it right
https://catbox.moe
Catbox is probably easiest because all you need to do is drag and drop your recorded video file onto Catbox's light-blue rectangle, wait a few seconds while it uploads and then you'll be given a link you can post in a comment.
Catbox is also great because it doesn't compress any video and image files so no quality is lost. Catbox also makes it easy for us to save a backup archive copy of your video.
Just done it on archive - forgot about cat box completely 🙄
Don't know about direct jamming but the image triggers security measures. Couple on the ground in Texas filmed Trump and entourage in the skies. Within seconds of publication the post and image were removed.
That would make sense for GEOTUS. What has my noggin joggin is this is a flight in a non hostile territory (over a local beach in pristine visibility) so would such countermeasures be deployed normally as a matter of course? It’s puzzling. As I said we have filmed stuff before - different helos - to show the kids when we’ve seen them flying past and had no probs.
I'm in the Netherlands and the skies have been very busy with military and the only info is 'muh training'. If the military was under the full control of the deep state, why the need for so much 'training'? On the other hand, NATO and UN are using 'training' to inch towards Russia as well as troops on the ground in US and Canada. Very confusing.
Was it a pair of super - lynx?
Not sure, have been looking up British military helicopters and it looked like a Lynx HM8.. it’s really odd cos we’ve seen helos flying a fair bit of the years cos there is a small RAF site not too far away from where we live and have filmed them before with no probs.
Hi, were they grey or green or too far away? I'm guessing they had wheels/under carriage and not skids?
Grey with wheels. Just looking at pics of Apache as I thought they were that type at first. You can hear that on audio. OH thinks not. Looking at diff helo pics though they look more like Lynx but I might be wrong.
Yeah they are Navy Lynx Super - cats, never heard anything fitted that can disrupt filming tho, and I used to fly for the Army.
PS But the super yacht owned by Abramovich does have a system where lasers targets the lenses of cameras and make them non functional to record, I doubt the Navy went to that expense on a Lynx tho!
It’s really weird.
Can you upload it?
Have done on the thread
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Cannot link to my biggest post,but definitely it might be it. It looks Q operation might be started. Not confirmed,only my theory for now.
Sounds like cloaking technology. Could have been filming a "ufo"
Upload the video
Have never uploaded video before - will have a go when I get home in a few mins.
IF there is a training exercise going on and IF such cloaking technology exists, then yes I could see that happening. In preparations for any military action were happening in the form of "war games," they would deploy every system they have short of lethal use of weapons in any training exercise. In fact they would be using every system available to them to make sure they function correctly.
Just tried to upload to rumble so could post the link but it won’t upload - keeps coming up “upload failed”. Going to try something else
Sounds like the helos were carrying ECM equipment
Right hopefully this will work - https://file.io/6jbl2Kx6HLNk
Did you delete this or did it do it on its own (wink, wink)?
The first attempt I think I did. I didn’t realise it’s a Snapchat type thing and I clicked to see if the link worked before posting and it deleted it. That’s why I tried the archive site to load it there (which seems to have worked). Like I said I’ve not really loaded much video on here before (other than linking to other content via other sites).
Glad the file didn't delete itself -- that would be really strange.
Did you see the helos on the screen when you were recording?
Yes it was a clear image on the phone while recording - that’s what is odd. We’ve seen things like chinooks and other aircraft flying over at other times and have filmed them with no problem.
says file was deleted
Have tried again on https://archive.org/details/img-8887_202107
https://archive.org/details/img-8887_202107
Think that one has worked
That one did.
Very odd that it took no video of the aircraft. Did you happen to get a still picture of it?
No. I didn’t try to as I just went straight to video to film them for our son - he’s mad about military stuff and loves stuff like this. They were flying in staggered formation out over the river.
What model of phone? I could imagine a modulated IR signal or something like that that the phone camera processor software is designed to look for and shut down.
It’s an iPhone 11, it was so weird cos I could clearly see them on the screen
That actually pretty consistent with this theory. This would be implemented at a higher layer than raw video output and maybe just blocks video encoding.
Did it seem to cut out only when you pointed towards the helicopter?
Looking at the specs for iphone 11 the camera has "truedepth" which is an IR dot projection scheme for recovering depth... which means it has an RGBIR sensor that can separate IR from red. Which means the system can process an IR signal that is not visible in the RGB video.
If these birds fly by routinely it would be interesting to try to capture video using an IR sensitive camera like a webcam that supports "night mode" and has IR illumination. Ideally at night when there wouldn't be a signal from sunlight.
Hey what do you know
https://9to5mac.com/2016/06/28/apple-patent-infra-red-block-photos/
Oooh interesting.
Very cool sight to see them fly like that. I still run outside and look up every time I hear a loud chopper and I'm mid 30s. We took our son to a Air museum many years ago and it was awesome. Had a trip planed to go back last year but Covid stopped that.
It is cool. My son loves military stuff and history and was blown away yesterday as he saw 2 fighter jets fly over head. There’s been a lot of activity in the area over the last couple of weeks with aircraft at the local RAF airfield and the nearby army camp. It’s reportedly a training op but there is way more traffic than we’ve seen with previous training things over the years. I mean they’ve even opened the camp to the public at the end of a training event a few years back so you could go look at the helicopters. Talking to a friend about it now abs they mentioned something about there being large scale emergency services training drills with crisis actors by where she lives (about 5 miles away). We’ve not heard anything about that one though..
I take it you are living down south and east, Near Salisbury area?
Nope North West