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Russia Suspected of Jamming GPS Signal in Finland

posted by martyb on Monday November 12 2018, @10:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the know-where-you-are-REALLY-at dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

BBC:

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Monday November 12 2018, @11:24PM (3 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday November 12 2018, @11:24PM (#761087)

    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.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by legont on Monday November 12 2018, @11:42PM (2 children)

    by legont (4179) on Monday November 12 2018, @11:42PM (#761095)

    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.

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    • (Score: 2) by richtopia on Tuesday November 13 2018, @04:22PM

      by richtopia (3160) on Tuesday November 13 2018, @04:22PM (#761348) Homepage Journal

      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

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @02:12AM (#762010)

      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.