Russland hat das GPS des Flugzeugs des britischen Verteidigungsministers auf der Reise nach Polen gestört

by TheTelegraph

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  1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

    Russia jammed the Global Positioning System (GPS) signal of the Defence Secretary’s official jet on a round trip to Poland.

    Grant Shapps was travelling on the RAF’s Envoy, a Dassault 900LX, to visit troops in Mazury, a military base near the Belarus border, when the aircraft’s pilots lost access to the GPS.

    The aircraft was passing by Kaliningrad, a Russian territory between Poland and Lithuania, on Wednesday morning when the attack happened.

    On the return flight [Russia blocked the system again](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/02/03/secret-russian-electronic-warfare-weapon-sat-nav/), this time for 30 minutes, as Mr Shapps, who was accompanied by journalists, flew back to London on Wednesday evening.

    The plane’s internal Wi-Fi was also temporarily down during both of the jamming attacks.

    A defence source said the jamming was “directly related to Putin and the attack on Ukraine and the sensitivities around Kaliningrad”.

    However Mr Shapps was assured the electronic attack did not threaten the safety of the aircraft.

    # Contingency plans

    It is understood the pilots had contingency plans for such an event and were able to navigate by other means at their disposal.

    The source added: “While the RAF are well prepared to deal with this, it still puts an unnecessary risk on civilian aircraft and could potentially endanger people’s lives.

    “There is no excuse for this and it’s widely irresponsible on Russia’s part.”

    This is not the first time Russia has targeted RAF aircrafts.

    In 2021 RAF planes flying from Cyprus were subject to routine GPS jamming by Russia.

    Typhoon and F-35 fighter jets, A400M transport aircraft and Voyager troop planes were all attacked as they flew in and out of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, a major base for the British military.

    Defence sources have said that Russia’s pattern of behaviour was typical of being able to antagonise other nations without using direct violence.

    This year Finland, Norway and Poland have all warned [Russia’s jamming of GPS](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/27/russia-electronic-warfare-turn-tide-war-ukraine/) was not only affecting military units but airlines and air ambulance services.

    The practice has been regarded as an almost daily occurrence when transiting near the Russian border.

    **Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/14/grant-shapps-gps-jammed-aircraft-trip-poland-troops/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/14/grant-shapps-gps-jammed-aircraft-trip-poland-troops/)

  3. not really a big deal tbh, but of course the media loves to sensationalize everything. GPS is always just considered one of those “nice to have” things and pilots are trained to fly without.

  4. I am all for us jamming one of their GLONASS satellites out of orbit.

  6. One wonders how pilots flew their airplanes all these years when GPS was not a thing!

  8. Jfc I hope someday the west wakes up and quits letting this blatant aggression slide

  9. Russia attacking and advancing and antagonizing everyday but let’s all sit around with our dicks in our hands hmm-ing and haw-ing over whether or not it’s appropriate to send certain things to Ukraine. They’re dying for all the rest of us, least we can do is go all in on helping them, show Russia and the rest of the world we will stick together and not tolerate aggression

  10. Just sacrifice a couple large cities and bomb them into the Stone Age. It will be worth it and will let China know what’s up.

  11. We need to start treating these kinds of actions for what they are – acts of war. Minor acts, but still. Russia’s state media constantly talks about nuking the sane world, invading and so on, while being completely controlled by the government. Stop taking their shit, hit them back.

  12. We’re they hoping it’d accidentally get shot down?

  14. I don’t understand how GPS can be “jammed.” Anyone more technical know the details?

  15. A well aimed cruise missile on the source of the attack would send a firm “here’s the find out part”

  17. GPS jamming is not that big of a deal. I get jammed all the time in civilian aircraft around the Middle East. Shoot, before Ukraine, when we were flying through Russia, we got jammed all the time. It’s what they do; nothing new. It doesn’t affect the aircraft performance because there are multiple other systems on board besides GPS that make jamming a nonissue.

  18. I thought that was arguably an act of war. They are just gonna incrementally do more devious things

  19. “good times create weak men, weak men create hard times” western leadership is weak. nothing more to say.

  20. The GOP. The are the ones to blame. The GOP. No one else is to blame. If the GOP got their heads out of their asses for one seconds and funded Ukraine, things would be way better.

  21. The new GPS antenna for the Eurofighter is going to be very hard to jam, probably for this reason.

  22. Schapps should have used a pseudonym to cover his tracks👍

  23. west should constantly being doing similar shit to russia

  25. They’re teasing us, they’ll do exponentially more borderline acts of war in hope that eventually Article 5 gets triggered and then they could blame NATO for starting a war over a “minor” thing

    We have to ignore them and see how far they push it, when they reach a level that is undeniably an act of war, probable by a definition, then we’ll react

  26. Lol. As someone who flies in that area, I can tell you Russians did not jam his GPS directly. All commercial plane loose GPS around Russia, Belarus, Turkey and other military active areas.

  27. What is Kaliningrad? It looks like it’s separated from Russian borders by Lithuania and Belarus but also part of Russia?

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