The Royal Australian Navy’s largest vessel, HMAS Canberra, unintentionally knocked out internet and radio services across parts of New Zealand early Wednesday while sailing through the Cook Strait en route to Wellington.
The ship’s navigation radar interfered with 5GHz wireless access points, triggering automatic shutdowns across the Taranaki and Marlborough regions.
The outages were reported to New Zealand’s Radio Spectrum Management and relayed to the Australian Defence Force, which promptly resolved the issue by changing frequencies.
The disruption, described by a local ISP as “military-grade,” highlights vulnerabilities in New Zealand’s shared radio spectrum.
“This wasn’t just a blip. It was full-scale, military-grade radar triggering built-in safety protocols … and it rolled across our network in sync with the ship’s movement,” Primo ISP managing director Matthew Harrison wrote on LinkedIn.
“It’s not every day a warship takes your gear offline!”
Testing, testing, 123.
Absolutely…! ✔️✔️
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Yes my immediate reaction to this is is that it was a test run for something, such is my trust in the government or media.
The intentional demonstration by 5EYES that hermetically insulating a country is crucial to the policy of media isolation; keep the mushrooms in the dark and on separate shelves.
So that’s why they want us to have 5G.
Easier to control and infiltrate to access your devices
Have you noticed all the 5G towers next to old peoples homes and intensive housing areas? If not then start taking note……..makes me think they ramp it up every so often to harm people….
Typical blundering Aussie idiots causing trouble as usual.
Now now, Australians are universally adored by everyone 😆
Disrupting 5g or any other frequency is an issue. Blowing up the trans tasman 2 fibre cable will be a problem as satellites can not carry the load nor speed.
A solution is to have undisclosed fibre cable. Slight issue is the last one cost $1.6 Billion and took amost 2 years to lay.
The first target is always wiping out communications.
Buy your 2 way radio before that happens.
No doubt more diversity hires having access to buttons and switches that they dont fully understand.
Imagine the reaction if that was a Chinese ship. We would have sent our fighter jets out to intercept it….oh, wait…. 😆
Of course a military operational ship would unintentionally knock out coms🤡
So, yesterday Chorus puts out a story that the outage was caused by them that a vital ethernet router was left out of the network during a planned upgrade, causing a rolling network failure. Today, the Aussies admit it was their fault by broadcasting on the 5G frequency.
Why would Chorus put out their piece, when savey ISP folks had already figured it out that Chorus wasn’t involved with the areas affected?
That it was “human error” on the part of the Aussies and/or Chorus is highly unlikely. The opposite is more likely true.
This was a test plain and simple, using New Zealand, the ideal testing ground as we have seen with other technologies, like eftpos, and human management we saw with the Covid debacle. The Brave New World is upon us, and it has become, very, very real.
Right on.
hairy clam driving that boat?
OMG 😱
Is this the radar the HMAS Canberra is operating? Revealing to research “Giraffe Agile Multi Beam Radar – Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance” https://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/defense-systems/giraffe-agile-multi-beam-radar/
Also makes you think about the navy ship that was visiting Christchurch at the time of the earthquake……
Check out the 5G Zombies that activated when the boat passed-by…!