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Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila has said the GPS signal in his country's northern airspace was disrupted during recent Nato war games in Scandinavia.
He said he believed the signal had been jammed deliberately and that it was possible Russia was to blame because it had the means to do so.
Finland is not a Nato member but joined the war games which began last month.
Norway also reported GPS problems during the exercises near Russia's north-western borders.
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The Finnish region of Lapland and northern parts of Norway close to the Russian border were affected, with the Norwegian regional airline Widerøe confirming its pilots had experienced GPS disruption, Germany's DW news site reports.However, the airline pointed out that pilots aboard civilian aircraft had other options when a GPS signal failed.
Finland has called "shenanigans" on Russia.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by RandomFactor on Monday November 12 2018, @10:58PM (8 children)
I mean logically why wouldn't Russia jam satellites if it hits the fan?
Unless the war games are practicing for our pending battle with Belgium...
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday November 12 2018, @11:07PM (6 children)
My thought exactly.
They should thank whoever jammed the GPS, for improving the readiness of the troops.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2018, @11:21PM (5 children)
You are assuming the wargames were anti-Russian in nature, as in a fight against Russia. NATO does a lot of other military activities, which Finland may be interested in. For example, all the things going on in the Middle East.
If the point of the exercise is to practice and role-play against a group which does not have the technological capability of GPS jamming, then this interference is just being obstinate and disruptive.
A sports-ball analogy... The Yankees are practicing on the baseball field for their upcoming game against the Red Sox. However, the Cubs are annoyed because reasons (i.e. Russia doesn't like Finland being cozy with NATO), so they decide to set up some loudspeakers and blare air-raid sirens during the practice session just to mess it up; it's also a convenient show of force to try to intimidate the Yankees and causes substantial disruption for the civilians in the neighborhood.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Monday November 12 2018, @11:24PM (3 children)
Those were the biggest joint exercises since the cold war. They were not aimed at Daesh or Assad.
Neither of which happen to be near topologies or weather remotely related to Norway/Finland.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by legont on Monday November 12 2018, @11:42PM (2 children)
It's probably a damage control for yet another brand new state of the art NATO technology colliding with an oil tanker. http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/24776/badly-damaged-norwegian-frigate-intentionally-ran-aground-after-tanker-collision [thedrive.com]
As per the GPS jamming, I could probably do it within direct sight distance using off the shelf electronics.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Tuesday November 13 2018, @04:22PM
Low power GPS jammers are already available commercially. For example, this man was fined for his jammer interfering with Newark's systems:
https://www.liveviewgps.com/blog/employee-fined-32000-gps-jammer/ [liveviewgps.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @02:12AM
What kind of warship is it that can't handle such a small fender bender? I guess I form a navy of tankers, ram the enemy, and take over the world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:49AM
It must be wonderful to be able to close your eyes while the ruling elites toboggan towards catastrophe!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @01:55PM
Perhaps the summary should have been
Russians provide a training aid for recent NATO exercise, results mixed