Several NATO members accuse Moscow of deliberately jamming positioning signals

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.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        67·
        8 months ago

        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?

        • PugJesus@kbin.social
          58·
          8 months ago

          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.

          • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            106·
            8 months ago

            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.

            • PugJesus@kbin.social
              57·
              8 months ago

              The combined spectrum is called GNSS and you can get receivers that combine all three for get this…

              20 bucks.

              Russia would not using the other spectrums because… ?

              Because that’s not how integrated systems work in a massive institution like a government or military. Jesus fucking Christ.

              Are you okay by the way? Someone asking a very reasonsonable question doesn’t mean they are pro Russia.

              You really want me to trot out your long history of this bootlicking shite?

              • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
                67·
                8 months ago

                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.

                • PugJesus@kbin.social
                  95·
                  8 months ago

                  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.

                  “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.

                  If all you can do is spam ad hominems then don’t bother responding.

                  Oh, alright, let’s go down through, shall we?

                  Israel has already killed more civilians in 45 days than Putin during his entirely Ukraine war.

                  The west is commiting actual genocide right now. Don’t mis use the word for Putin.

                  Ukraine is doing plenty of terrorism against their occupier. Your double standards are showing.

                  Reminder that israel had already killed more civilians than Putin did since the start of the Ukraine war. Biden is literally worse than Putin.

                  You fuck off genocide apologist. When it came to Ukraine you were all calling for the Russians to assasinate Putin.

                  Now that it’s about non white people you’re literally saying you’re gonna vote for the genocide guy. Fucking racist hypocrites.

                  The war crimes Russia committed in Bucha pale in comparison to the complete genocide israel is committing right now.

                  America is already talking about dropping support for Ukraine.

                  Ukraine was just a proxy to exhaust Russian resources with.

                  Now that the entire country is in ruin America is going to pull support and leave them for dead like they’ve done with all their other proxies.

                  Even the Russians had far greater precision than this when attacking Ukraine.

                  You’re in for a treat when you start reading about the Azov brigade. They’ve got literal Nazi’s.

                  It’s so sad that all you have is whataboutism isn’t it? And the worst part is that Genocide Joe isn’t even the lesser of evils anymore. He is now the worse evil.

                  Genocide Joe is the person able to stop this. Instead he removes all war crime restrictions on the weapons and protects israel with all his power. He is actively committing mass genocide.

                  A reminder that Genocide Joe has killed more than twice as many civilians than Putin in Ukraine already.

                  Not to mention the amount of children murdered by this barbaric Zio Nazi

                  Not to forget Ukraine is slowly getting ditched too so the “world powers” are losing that one as well.

                  Israel is like 10000% more genocidal than Russia.

                  But anyone not supporting Ukraine with weapons against Russia obviously has to go because that’s very “unfreedom” of them.

                  The Kurds welcome Ukraine in joining the long list of groups abandoned and left in ruins by the US after being promised support to fight their enemy as long as needed.

                  Biden needs to focus on committing Genocide now. He has no time for Ukrainians beating an invasion. Surely Zeloonsky understands, he unconditionally supports israel’s genocide himself.

                  It goes on and on and on and on and…