What teams are carrying, why it is shifting, and the trade-offs before you spec a job.
A field review of the comms setups now showing up as de facto standard on residential details. What teams are carrying, why the shift happened, and the trade-offs to weigh before you spec a job.
Iran's strikes have repeatedly reached Gulf-state soil, from Kuwait and Bahrain to Qatar and Jordan, with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and one-way drones. For operators on static sites, the tradecraft is warning discipline, hardened cover and counter-drone awareness.
The IRGC says it hit Monday's two tankers because they switched off their navigation systems and slipped south through Omani waters. That inverts the usual advice. In a strait saturated with GPS jamming and spoofing, going dark used to be protection; now one side is treating a dark, off-lane transit as hostile intent.
GPS jamming and spoofing around Hormuz has been persistent since the conflict began, at one point scrambling more than 1,100 ships in a day and placing vessels on land and over a nuclear plant. With the strait back at war, position spoofing is a standing planning factor for any transit.
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