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Defensive measures? Putin’s jamming GPS across Poland, Lithuania, and into Finland

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Important Takeaways:

  • WEAPONS OF WAR Putin sparks chaos in Europe by jamming GPS on flights & ships with top secret electronic weapon, warns military chief
  • The weapon has reportedly been jamming GPS technology on flights and ships across the eastern flank of NATO, causing severe disruption.
  • A surge in disruption to the GPS guiding system for air and sea traffic has been detected in Finland, the Baltic nations and Poland, Estonian military chief Martin Harem told the Telegraph.
  • “What we have seen is a malfunctioning of GPS for ships and air traffic,” he said.
  • “And we really do not know if they [Russia] want to achieve something or just practice and test their equipment.”
  • He added: “But definitely, nobody should behave like this, especially when you’re at war with a neighboring country.”
  • According to Western intelligence reports, the fixed jamming system is called Tobol – which looks like a huge dish with an antenna.
  • Analysts have identified at least seven Tobol complexes in Russia.
  • The secret weapon transmits signals on the same frequency as the satellite, which prevents connected devices from receiving the legitimate signal, reports the Washington Post.
  • Electronic warfare expert Dr. Thomas Withington said the dish can be directed to disrupt GPS signals in multiple directions – which could be key to protect Kaliningrad as well as Russia from potential incoming missiles.
  • He argued that the system is rather defensive in nature – and is being used as a “invisible” shield against Nato’s arsenal of satellite-guided missile systems.
  • “This may surprise some people but I think, ostensibly, it’s defensive,” he told The Telegraph.
  • “The Russian military is highly concerned by Global navigation satellite system weapons.”

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Estonia Defense Force General claims Russia is using GPS jamming technology effecting safety of commercial shipping and civilian airlines

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Important Takeaways:

  • Putin’s threat to civilian airlines: Top secret Russian electronic weapon ‘based in Kaliningrad’ is jamming GPS technology on flights and ships across eastern flank of NATO, Western intelligence fears
  • A top secret Russian electronic weapon allegedly based in Kaliningrad has been jamming GPS technology on flights and ships across the eastern flank of NATO, Western intelligence services fear.
  • There has been disruption to the GPS guidance of air and sea traffic in Finland, the Baltic states and Poland, according to Estonia’s military chief.
  • ‘What we have seen is a malfunctioning of GPS for ships and air traffic,’ General Martin Harem, commander of the Estonian Defense Forces, told the Telegraph.
  • ‘And we really do not know if they [Russia] want to achieve something or just practice and test their equipment.’
  • The suspected electronic weapon causing these disruptions is likely based in Russia’s military site in Kaliningrad, sitting between Lithuania and Poland, according to Western intelligence findings.
  • Experts warned that if the same happens to ships, they could collide due to not being able to see each other on navigation systems.
  • Gen Harem said: ‘Whatever they [Russia] do here, one aim is to degrade our stability, self-confidence, our trust to the West, unity and cohesion.’
  • This comes as a shelling attack has today killed at least 28 people at a bakery in the Russian-occupied city of Lysychansk, Moscow-installed officials have said.

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