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Russia Suspected of Jamming GPS Signal in Finland

posted by martyb on Monday November 12 2018, @10:22PM   
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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• Normal part of any major exercise Normal part of any major exercise (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @02:16AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @02:16AM (#761129)

  Messing with communications is a normal part of any large military exercise. It is usually so effective that it is only permitted for a short time. The articles do not say if it went of for more than a few minutes or hours. Do far nothing is unusual.

  There are only two things that could possibly stand out here. It is part of the cover story to blame Russia and they make it sound as if the disruption went on for longer than a few minutes or hours. The articles do not say how long the distruption went on but it sounds minor, compared to what could be done. Treating the distruption as a breach of Finnish air space may only be a ruse to increase tensions with Russia and maybe force them to move against Finland and the Scandinavian Peninsula, to the advantage of NATO or for the short-term gain of a small handful of pro-NATO politicians who wish to drum up fear of Russia as a motivation to join NATO. Joining NATO would cost Finland its neutral status and probably force a very aggressive response from Russia..

  Russia may have oil, but otherwise the GDP of Russia [tradingeconomics.com] is less than the GDP of Italy [tradingeconomics.com].

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• Yugoslavia was also neutral (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 13 2018, @04:47AM

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday November 13 2018, @04:47AM (#761158) Homepage Journal

  My fathers light cruiser visited in 1970

  Tito signed a mutual defense pact with NATO to prevent the Soviets from doing with his country what they later did with Crimea.

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