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Several NATO members accuse Moscow of deliberately jamming positioning signals
GPS is no longer reliable around the Baltic Sea and northern Norway. Interference in the Global Positioning System (GPS), which has affected all NATO members bordering Russia for two years, has worsened in recent months. Alternative systems to GPS have had to be activated on tens of thousands of flights and the main Finnish airline has suspended one of its routes due to the problem, which is also disrupting maritime navigation. Several of the affected countries accuse Moscow of intentionally jamming signals with its electronic warfare systems.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, GPS interference has been recurring in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. These types of disruptions are common in and around conflict zones. Even so, in the last half year, the airspace of the three Baltic countries — in addition to that of Finland, Sweden and Poland — has been much more affected than at the beginning of the war. What’s more, thousands of ships have been navigating the Baltic without GPS since December, when the Russian army’s electronic warfare began in the Kaliningrad enclave. And in remote northeastern Norway, near Russia’s Northern Fleet base — which has eight of the 11 Russian submarines capable of launching long-range nuclear missiles — outages are almost daily.
I mean… It’s obviously electronic warfare from Russia.
There isn’t a need to “accuse” and nobody will listen to a denial.
This is just deliberate communication disruption, and prequel memes aside, we all know what disrupted communications leads to.
And they started with Ukraine, thinking it an easy target.
When I read an article the other day about laser point-to-point communication with a sattelite , I immediately thought to myself “oh this probably isn’t good, widespread sattelite communication disruption is about to be put to widespread use, why else would this be necessary when current systems have much higher bandwidth” and you know if you’re reading a news article about it, it’s been put to use by the DOD for years.
Am I sounding like a conspiracy theorist? Genuine question, because that seems reasonable in the modern world to me.
Wouldnt Ukraine do it too to jam Russian drones and planes GPS signals?
Just Asking Questions, huh?
Russia uses GLONASS, not GPS.
Sometimes people really don’t know.
Thank you for answering the question.
I hope you have a bad day for being an asshole about it though
I’m familiar with Linkerbaan. Pattern recognition is not an offense.
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All from our dear friend - took me only a few minutes of searching. Not faulting you for not searching, that would be ridiculous to expect of someone who didn’t know the poster, but this isn’t just “SOMEONE ASKED A QUESTION ABOUT RUSSIA!” it’s “Someone with a long history of playing ‘bothsides’ and putting forth bullshit assertions and feigning ignorance is doing it on one of the subjects they constantly do it on”.
Everyone can use Glonass or GPS or the Baidu thingy from China. They publicly broadcast the timestamps there’s no encryption on GPS stuff. Why would Russia limit themselves to just their own?
Because Russian systems run almost exclusively off GLONASS, and GPS is owned by the USA. Russia has a history in the Ukrainian War of… get this… jamming GPS signals but not GLONASS.
You wanna explain to me your thought process over Ukraine jamming GPS signals, the same GPS system they use, over their European allies in order to combat Russian GLONASS?
You can stop JAQing off any time.
The combined spectrum is called GNSS and you can get receivers that combine all five for get this…
20 bucks.
Russia would not using the other spectrums because… ?
Are you okay by the way? Someone asking a very reasonsonable question doesn’t mean they are pro Russia.
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Because that’s not how integrated systems work in a massive institution like a government or military. Jesus fucking Christ.
You really want me to trot out your long history of this bootlicking shite?
Yeah nobody there would think to ever update anything. Ever. Especially not those suicide drones from Iran. Which must have been developed 50 years ago.
GNSS is all public broadcast. There is no encryption. Nothing prevents anyone from using the extra signals of the others.
If all you can do is spam ad hominems then don’t bother responding.
“Just update it!”
The number of reasons why military-grade equipment integrated with 40 years of GLONASS-compatible systems that rely on the information given by GLONASS in its syntax can’t be replaced with a 20$ consumer receiver is massive even in a country whose military isn’t famously corrupt and inept.
Oh, alright, let’s go down through, shall we?
It goes on and on and on and on and…