GPS jamming near Hormuz helps cause a supertanker collision

The crude supertanker Front Eagle, carrying about 2 million barrels bound for China, collided with the tanker Adalynn near the Strait of Hormuz after days of intense GPS jamming and spoofing had scrambled ship positions across the Gulf, at times falsely placing Front Eagle inside Iran. A deck fire was extinguished and the Adalynn's 24 crew were evacuated with no casualties. It was the clearest physical consequence of the electronic-warfare environment around the world's most important oil chokepoint.