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London – Bulgaria would not investigate suspected Russian electronic intervention with a top European officer’s aircraft, officials said on Monday – because such GPS jamming is now so common.
European Commission Chairman Ursula von Der Leyen was flying to Bulgaria, Bulgaria on Sunday, when his aircraft was killed by GPS Jaming. It landed safely, but the dissolution was the latest in a string of about 80 incidents tracked by the Associated Press and was convicted on Russia by Western authorities as Moscow attacked Ukraine in 2022.
This year, Nordic and Baltic nations – including Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – have repeatedly warned of more electronic intervention from Russia, which disrupt communication with planes, ships and drones.
While Russian authorities suggest that jamming is defensive – to protect major cities and military infrastructure from Ukrainian drone attacks – Baltic officials say there is an increase in the depth of electronic intervention, leading to failures away from Russia’s boundaries from navigation failures.
In 2024, an aircraft carrying the British Defense Secretary blocked its satellite signal as it flew near the Russian region, while a Finnish airline temporarily suspended flights in the Estonian city of Tartu.
NATO general secretary Mark Rute said that the intervention experienced by Von Der Leyen’s aircraft was part of a complex campaign by Russia against Europe, which could be a “potential disastrous effect”.
Satellite Communications System – collectively known as global navigation satellite system or GNSS – receives exact time signals from satellites, about 20,000 km in space. How long does it take to get signals from several different satellites to calculate a smartphone, car, marine or aircraft navigation system.
But the signals can be intervened – usually known as jamming or spuffing.
Jaming means that a receiver is overwhelmed by a strong radio signal sent in the same range where GNSS and other satellite navigation signals operate, leading the receiver unable to fix a location or time. Spulling involves transmitting fake signals that mimic a real GNSS satellite signal – commonly known as GPS – to mislead a phone, ship or aircraft thinking that it is in a different place.
In a military context, jamming can be used to prevent an upcoming missile or drone attack, while Thomas Withington, a specialist at electronic warfare at the Royal United Services Institute in London, said the idea behind the spoofing is to “build”.
It is possible that Israel used Spufing technology to fly in Iranian airspace in June, when it killed top generals and hit nuclear sites, Withington suggested. Spoofing, he said, could help Israel to cheat the Iranian radar.
Long before the Ukraine invasion, Russian authorities deployed spuofing technology around the Kremlin in Moscow, causing chaos for taxi drivers or other motor drivers using GPS.
Russia “does not mind” if its own infrastructure affects, as long as the enemy’s activity is stopped, the Tington said.
In August, Latvia’s Electronic Communication Office stated that it had identified at least three warm places for electronic intervention with boundaries with Russia in Kalinigrad, Leningrad and PSKV regions. All three regions host important Russian military bases.
In April 2024, Finland’s national carrier Finner temporarily suspended flights to Tartu, Estonia, as it was said that two of its aircraft were prevented from landing due to GPS dissolution. At the time, the Tartu Airport needed to reach the aircraft to use GPS, although in the aircraft – and use – there are other forms of navigation.
These include radio navigation and inertial navigation systems, determining that an aircraft – or submarine – is located in air or water measuring its position without relying on GP.
Jaming and spoofing are common around the world and should not have a problem for pilots, to deal with it, Withington said. But they can spoil the decision making at a time when other things are going wrong, they suggested.
In December, Azerbaijan Airlines convicted an aircraft accident, killing 38 people on the “physical and technical intervention”.
Azerbaijan said that the aircraft had collided with a fire in southern Russia and became uncontrollable by electronic war.
Russian officials said that at the time when the aircraft was preparing to enter the Grozoni, Ukrainian drones were targeting the area around the airport.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zelizkov said that the aircraft of von Der Leyen was not specially targeted and the “side effects” of war in Ukraine are called Jaming.
The Electronic Communication Office in Latvia stated that it recorded 820 cases of intervention with satellite signals in 2024 in 2024 compared to 26 in 2024, and warned that the affected areas have recently “expanded considerably.”
In response, Baltic nations have banned drone flights in some areas near their borders with Russia and warned civil drone pilots to assess signal stability before flying.
Sweden’s maritime administration said it received several reports of signal intervention with ships in the Baltic Sea this year and in June officially sailors warned of using radars or sites for navigation.
In July, the Lithuanian media reported that two German tourists accidentally flew a light aircraft in Russia and were to be directed back to Lithuania by experienced pilots.
Many states have complained about electronic intervention in the International Civil Aviation Organization but the Russian authorities dismissed the complaints and suggested that they were politically motivated.
While Jaming and Spoofing were initially aimed at protecting the Russian infrastructure, the authorities realized that the strategy is a useful “effect of” influence, which is that it disintegrates and disqualification between President Putin as President Putin, “Withington said.
While countries with Russia’s border have reduced the effect of Russian jam in the air to a great extent, there is a possibility of a serious event in the sea.
While the sailors should rely on radar and chart, as well as GPS, to navigate, “subscribed evidence” suggests that some crew are “lazy”, and only rely on GPS, Withington said.
In that case, he said, if a large goods ship crashes, “may possibly be a disaster on your hands.”
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