You are just highlighting the diversity of technology that the US is behind in manufacturing and executing even though most of the technology was invented in the US.
You seem to be saying that for critical energy infrastructure, we should just...
You can't blame anything except physics.
That "nonsense" is a moire effect.
https://www.slrlounge.com/what-causes-moire-how-to-avoid-it-how-to-remove-it/
Maybe ... but I'd expect it to be constant or a problem for much more of the time if that was the cause.
GPS was fine for most of the 18 minute flight data, but was out for much of the 3 minute flight data