NATO Nations Hit by GPS Attack Blamed on Russia

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Source: Newsweek

Published Mar 02, 2024 at 7:49 AM EST


Norway is among northern European NATO members that have reported a spike in GPS (global positioning system) navigation disturbances amid speculation that Russia is responsible. Jamming of the signals used by pilots, motorists and emergency response services is of such a concern that Norwegian authorities have reportedly raised the issue with Russia's main intelligence agency the FSB.

Ed Mortimer, vice president of government affairs at geolocation services company NextNav, told Newsweek that the use of jamming is a "tool in the toolkit" for conflicts, which Russia had been deploying even before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

GPS jamming reduces positioning accuracy and could cause the receivers in the cockpit of civilian planes to lose positioning, although experts have said the recent spike in disturbances over the Baltic Sea does not threaten aircraft safety.

However, European countries near Russia have also expressed concern at the heightened levels of disturbances. This coincides with the Kremlin's standoff against the West over the war in Ukraine and the enlargement of NATO, although there is no evidence that Moscow is jamming GPS systems on purpose. Newsweek emailed the Russian Defense Ministry for comment on Saturday.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/nato-gps-russia-attack-blamed-1875276

[flying_wahini]

1. Why aren't countries pounding Russia with the same BS Putin's guy are throwing at them?

Hackers should be going after them hard, day after day.
This war would be over if Putin was stuck in Moscow without ANY communications.

Can’t we fight back and smash their people hard. Blockades, drone attacks, banking shutdowns? Something?
I know NATO, but really? How hard can it be?

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Because they spent 20 years intricately connecting themselves to Russia's energy, mineral and banking resources

and have now been forced to spend the past 2 years dissolving their rat's nest of agreements with the Russian Federation so they can operate independently. It's like an "Eux-it" from Russia, with a mass scramble for new trade agreements with other countries to satisfy their needs.

[paleotn]

3. It happens more often than most think.

We expect GPS and other navigational signals to be pristine and unjammed wherever we are but that's not the case. Hasn't been since these systems originated and for a laundry list of reasons. It doesn't appear that what's going on over Scandinavia and central Europe is directed specifically at those regions. It's merely spill over from jamming activity to their east, i.e., Russia. One can have a ton of reasons to jam or spoof GPS signals over one's own territory. Unfortunately, electromagnetic energy knows no national boundaries.

Good video below on this subject from a commercial pilot I follow. Also a good source on various commercial aviation topics such as what's going on with Boeing and the Max, etc. or if you just want to nerd out on aviation topics like I do. I highly recommend.