Was the downed UAV a Schiebel S-100? (Source: Wikipedia)
[RETRACTION NOTE: This blog was first posted with the speculation that the craft was a Schiebel S-100, and it was reported that a South Korean company called UconSystem was involved in developing a ground station system with Schiebel. ["The crashed UAV is Austrian-made, possibly the Schiebel S-100 for which the South Korean firm Uconsystem is developing a common ground control system."] Following a complaint by UconSystem stating that it is not involved with Schiebel, this speculation has been retracted from the article. I apologise personally for any misunderstanding of what was simply speculation based on reports on ties between the companies online, and I am keeping the original complaint and my response in the comments below]
Kyodo Press has announced that North Korean GPS jamming may have caused the crash of a South Korean unmanned helicopter drone near Inchon on May 10th (see the Nikkei and Sankei).
The remote controlled vehicle crashed into its control unit truck, killing a Slovakian engineer, and injuring another two people inside. According to the Nikkei article, the South Korean Kyunghyang newspaper reported that the Slovakian engineer was in the truck to conduct a test flight.
The South Korean military are reported to be investigating whether the jamming of GPS signals by North Korea could have caused the crash. There have been several noted jamming incidents since April 28th, including another incident on the 10th which forced a Coast Guard helicopter to abort take off at Gimpo airport. At least 4 aircraft landing at Inchon are reported to have had GPS failures as well.
The crashed UAV is Austrian-made, possibly the Schiebel S-100 for which a South Korean firm is said to be developing ground control systems. The downed UAV is reportedly being procured by the South Korean military to patrol the Yellow Sea around the Northern Limit Line.
The news does not appear to have reached English outlets yet, but keep your eyes peeled, as this raises interesting implications not only for the South Korean military’s handling of the GPS reliability problem, but also how other states around the world might seek to impede the use of their airspace by foreign powers.
[H/T to Susumu at Surveillance to Go Nowhere]
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A former contributor to World Intelligence (Japan Military Review), James Simpson joined Japan Security Watch in 2011, migrating with his blog Defending Japan. He has a Masters in Security Studies from Aberystwyth University and is currently living in Kawasaki, Japan.
His primary interests include the so-called 'normalization' of Japanese security (i.e. militarization), and the political impact of the abduction issue with North Korea.
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6 comments
Paul Kang says:
May 10, 2012
This is Paul Kang from UconSystem.
We(UconSystem) are totally disappointed and enraged at the article you wrote in your website. Let me once more let you know that the news you wrote is a false and we wonder for what reason you reported such a deceitful fact on your site giving us a tremendous damage to our company’s image and future business. We can understand your act as only to give harm to us. Therefore, I urge you to check once more about the true fact in Korea once more and revise your news. We urge you to also put in a separate written apologize so that we could not have further damage.
Telling the truth, we don’t have any co-work with company, Shiebel on Korean market. It is two other companies who worked with Shiebel, and those are whom you will have to find out as I don’t want to speak out doing same thing as you.
We are now preparing to sue all the subject companies, publishing companies and blogers under the provision of international law. However, we once more want you to immediately react before the lawsuit’s total charge gets bigger.
I’ll once more send you about the following measures after having internal meetings and conglomerate meetings with our executives.
Regards
James Simpson says:
May 10, 2012
Paul,
I apologise for your company's taking offense at the speculation in my blog post. I believe you should note a few things here:
1. The blog post has already been amended with a retraction, removing the original sentence from the post, but keeping it for posterity in the retraction to show transparently your right to complaint.
2. Note the language of the sentence is speculative. This blog at no point claimed knowledge that UconSystem was involved in the crash, only that it was developing a common ground control system for the Schiebel S-100, as reported online in the past on Defense Update, National Defense Magazine, and <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=uconsystem+schiebel&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb" title="Google Search: Schiebel UconSystem" rel="nofollow">elsewhere. This was taken for fact, and is a lapse in fact-checking in a field very difficult to fact check in.
3. We apologise fully if we have made a factual error above. The statement has been fully retracted on the blog page to show all readers who link to the site from elsewhere that your company is unrelated to the crash.
Hopefully this satisfies your complaint, but feel free to contact me further if you have any further issues.
James Simpson
paulkang says:
May 11, 2012
Hello James,
Thanks for the action you conducted.
I've printed the revised article and sent to our group mail quoting about your rapid reaction. I also appologize for my aggresive attitude.
Hope we could get in touch by good affairs next time and once more thanks for the revision.
Paul
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