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

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, Informative) by MadTinfoilHatter on Tuesday November 13 2018, @03:56AM

    by MadTinfoilHatter (4635) on Tuesday November 13 2018, @03:56AM (#761145)

    So what is this GPS alternative that pilots have?

    Fallback number 1: VOR [wikipedia.org]
    Fallback number 2: ADF [wiktionary.org] (Doesn't seem to have a wikipedia page)
    Fallback number 3: Radar vectors from air traffic control.
    And when they get close to the airport there is ILS [wikipedia.org] which is the primary system and not a fallback anyway. It's not like they have to fall back to medieval technology just because satnav is out.

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