Radio Electronic War: The Russian Federation stuck GPS signal over Europe - Politico

Since the beginning of 2024, 985 cases of muffling GPS signals were recorded, and for the whole 2023-1371 cases. The growth was seven times. Radioelectronic obstacles over the Baltic Sea are increasingly appearing, which stumbled on radio electronic wrestling signals. Russia is considered the most likely culprit. About it reports Politico. Passenger planes that fly over the Baltic region are increasingly reporting the absence or fake signal.

Episodes of the silence of the signal regularly occur from the beginning of a full -scale invasion. Everything looks like the source of the Kaliningrad Anclav. "Russia regularly attaches planes, passengers and sovereign NATO countries," said Dana Howard, President of the American organization Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation, lobbying GPS users. She added that it is a real threat to security.

It is already known about at least one case when the aircraft almost collided with the mountain, but it was in 2019. The EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is studying the problem, but while regulators say that GPS problems do not pose a risk to flight. In the European Aeronawn Safety Organization, it is recorded that the number of obstacles has been increasing since January 2022. During January-February 2024, the number of obstacles became almost record.

If, for the whole 2023, 1371 cases of interruptions with a GPS signal were recorded, then in January-February there were already 985. Also recently, a record 47 hours had been operating over the Baltic region, which affected 1614 aircraft. EASA cannot confirm the Russian origin of obstacles and whether it was deliberate. "Due to the fact that the areas have suffered, it is very likely that this activity is related to conflict, and the impact on civil aviation is a side effect.

However, EASA cannot say who is responsible for it," said EASA spokeswoman Janet Nortkot. This Howard believes that the incidents are intentional and the combat zone in Ukraine in Ukraine, so that the influence may be felt in the Baltic region. On aircraft pilots, the loss of GPS signal does not mean that they will come from the course, but the load will increase. The likelihood of pilots or air traffic dispatchers is also increasing.