A 63-hour-long marathon of GPS jamming attacks disrupted global satellite navigation systems for hundreds of aircraft flying through the Baltic region – and Russia is thought to be responsible

A 63-hour-long marathon of GPS jamming attacks disrupted global satellite navigation systems for hundreds of aircraft flying through the Baltic region – and Russia is thought to be responsible

Russia is suspected of launching a record-breaking 63-hour-long attack on GPS signals in the Baltic region. The incident, which affected hundreds of passenger jets earlier this month, occurred amid rising tensions between Russia and the NATO military alliance more than two years since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

“We have seen an increase in GPS jamming since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine, and allies have publicly warned that Russia has been behind GPS jamming affecting aviation and shipping,” a NATO official told New Scientist. “Russia has a track record of jamming GPS signals and has a range of capabilities for electronic warfare.”

  • deafboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    765·
    7 months ago

    Isn’t that kinda pathetic? Jamming GPS is not hard, nor impressive. It’s just annoying.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      312·
      7 months ago

      Seems like a message is being sent.

      I love to be a fly on the wall behind the scenes, as far as what’s going on between the two sides, that they actually decided to do something as annoying as this.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      313·
      7 months ago

      That’s all they’ve got left after throwing all of their troops into the meat grinder.

        • shastaxc@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          7 months ago

          Threatening the lives of EU citizens and commerce in an effort to force the European nations to withdraw support from Ukraine.

          • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
            44·
            7 months ago

            It was GPS spoofing. The navs fucked up.

            Don’t pilots still learn to work with a compas or stars? Radio guidance? Like, nothing that uses GPS is new.

            It was just really inconvenient for a bunch of people.

              • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
                24·
                7 months ago

                So, what, order a bunch of pizzas? Spam everyone with dick pics? I’m not seeing it. This just looks impotent, unless there’s more to it.

                  • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
                    1·
                    7 months ago

                    So is your mom.

                    Or maybe she’s just being really polite about refusing my advances. I don’t have a chance, do I?

                    Seriously though; what do you think the point is? That Russia’s willing to cross boundaries and do unethical shit? Remember when they stole a major party in american politics?

          • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
            31·
            7 months ago

            On a mostly civilian system with known fallbacks?

            Edit: fuck em. You don’t have to fight Russia, you just have to fight Moscow. If they manage to provoke Europe, they lose. Badly. They’re barely managing to hold against supported Ukraine.

            • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              I thought GPS had been kept restricted from civilians for ages for its military uses, I may be wrong though

              • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                7 months ago

                Yeah but at this point that’s all redundant, right? any military planner worth shit knows this can happen.