Russians jam GPS signals of UK military flights
Pravda Ukraine
In the first four months of 2024, Russia jammed the GPS signal on every fourth flight of the UK Royal Air Force.
Source: The Telegraph, as reported by European Pravda
Details: The UK publication examined data from the Flight Radar flight tracking service, which covered 63 UK military aircraft between 1 January and 30 April. They completed 1,467 flights over Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
During this time, the United Kingdoms military aviation flew 504 transport and reconnaissance missions over Eastern Europe, with 142 of them encountering GPS jamming, and in 60 cases, such efforts occurred multiple times.
According to The Telegraph, if flights across the eastern Mediterranean are included, the proportion of the UK military aviation flights that were jammed increases to 40%.
Presumably, the source of the interference is Israel, which is attempting to defend itself against potential GPS-guided weapons launched by Hamas.
At the same time, in Eastern Europe, the Russian GPS jamming station is positioned in Kaliningrad Oblast, a territory on the Baltic Sea’s coastlines sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania.
The UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, who was aboard a jet jammed with a GPS signal in the spring, described The Telegraph’s publication as “another example of Russia’s recklessness and more evidence that they are an out-of-control hostile state.”
“Thankfully our planes and pilots can see off this threat but it illustrates president Putin’s contempt for the West and for the international rules-based order,” Shapps added.
GPS navigation problems in Europe have been reported since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, particularly in Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian enclave overlooking the Baltic Sea.
European governments believe this is a deliberate operation by Moscow.
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