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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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• The Finns invented the Molotov Cocktail The Finns invented the Molotov Cocktail (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 13 2018, @04:43AM (1 child)

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday November 13 2018, @04:43AM (#761157) Homepage Journal

  They named it after the Soviet Foreign Minister at the outbreak of World War II

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• Re:The Finns invented the Molotov Cocktail (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @05:03AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @05:03AM (#761161)

  They went well with the Molotov bread baskets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_bread_basket [wikipedia.org]

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