Because is what they do, because they can, because it’s Russia and Russia is stupid AF, because they want people to die in Europe so their political pets in EU can take advantage of that and screech, pick one or all.
You can answer any weird and random act by Russia simply by “because they think it gives them an edge.”
Because we don’t fight back.
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Fucking around and finding out is Putins strategy…🤷🏾♂️
Short read, worth the time
Being dicks in order to compensate for their feelings of inadequacy. Really, rather than putting up with that shit NATO should just clamp a blockade around Kaliningrad in response. .
The reverse cargo cult is when you say, for any X, “Of course our X fails, their X fails too, they just don’t admit it.”
Where X can be just about anything: missile interception, anti-tank weapon, naval defense, … or commercial airline safety.
Russian airplanes are falling out of the sky due to poor maintenance and lack of parts. Rather than admit this, they will try to cause the same effect elsewhere, then point and say, “See? Nobody has a good airline safety record, it’s all a lie.”
We should hack their systems and cause disruption as well. Sure we have managed something with sanctions and stuff but why not play dirty like they do?
Because no one will do anything about it.
Because Europe lets them. Start doing it back to them and see how quickly things change
Russia’s heading for a blockade ‘for safety reasons’.
Because russia’s putin is a piece of shit and wants to take over the world.
why not counter them? close the NATO lake!
I’m not a pilot, but I deal directly with the aircraft safety during flight and I can tell you, the jamming doesn’t do shit. They fly without GPS pretty well, just get vectored for less than 10 minutes and they get their GPS back online and continue with their flight route. There are conventional navigation systems still online as well. GPS for landing and departures isn’t necessary too, just use ILS/DME/VOR systems which they use most of the time anyway. Unless they are capable of affecting GPS signals in central europe in more serious ways then maybe it’s an issue, perhaps they are just showing their dicks, but other than that, nice try Russia, but you gotta try harder if you want to do something serious.
Because russia is a vodka-addled terrorist country with nothing else but nukes and also because we’re not doing anything about it.
Seems like the fixed bases would be an easy target for partisan attacks. Even if the buildings are hardened there are antennas to hit and keep harassing.
Because it redirects resources Europe could be using elsewhere, like in Ukraine. It also allows Russia to guage responses against them.
They should just pay some poor Russian to blow it up!
Easy peasy.
We just visited Cyprus and did geocaching. The jamming made our GPS equipment believe it was at the Beirut airport. This was extremely annoying and forced us to even take breaks until it dissipated. For some reason the jamming only lasted some tens of minutes at a time and stopped by the evening.
Either give Ukraine long range missiles to take out all ten Topol EW stations and of extra missiles were provided which happened to take out enemy equipment and infrastructure ….. oh well 🤷♂️ Or give some Ukrainian special forces free passage to cross the border into Kaliningrad and do their thing. Plausible deniability and plenty of disclaimers and a fake news blast stating it was the ruZZians 🤷♂️
Because Russia is run by petty edgelords
“The ‘Baltic Beast’ is at it again. Mysterious – or not so mysterious – GPS signal disruption has become a growing problem for civilian air traffic, not just in the Baltic but also the **Black Sea** and the Eastern Mediterranean. …”
I was wondering why (South-)Korean Air and two more were over Sevastopol, Crimea. This is somehow risky. MH-17. So there are two possibilities: The plane was lured to fly over Crimea, because it looked like the straight ahead. Or The plane flew straight even when the GPS contradicted the magnetic and/or gyro compass. and only the ADS-B signal (this is what websites like this use) was sent from the plane with the wrong coordinates. Okay if this is only a linear offset … but the objective for using ADS-B is not to report the position of Elon Musk’s private jets, but collision prevention.
Meanwhile, Poland won’t even defend its own airspace which it has every right to do.
Gd, Putin sure knows how to make Western “leaders” look like a bunch of pussies.
Because they can. Nato won’t do shit. It’s infuriating.
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Because NATO.
without reading the article:
Because is what they do, because they can, because it’s Russia and Russia is stupid AF, because they want people to die in Europe so their political pets in EU can take advantage of that and screech, pick one or all.
You can answer any weird and random act by Russia simply by “because they think it gives them an edge.”
Because we don’t fight back.
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Fucking around and finding out is Putins strategy…🤷🏾♂️
Short read, worth the time
Being dicks in order to compensate for their feelings of inadequacy. Really, rather than putting up with that shit NATO should just clamp a blockade around Kaliningrad in response. .
Hybrid warfare.
Because they can. There will be no consequences
Why?
Because they are trying to make the [reverse cargo cult](https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/724533/the-reverse-cargo-cult) a reality.
The reverse cargo cult is when you say, for any X, “Of course our X fails, their X fails too, they just don’t admit it.”
Where X can be just about anything: missile interception, anti-tank weapon, naval defense, … or commercial airline safety.
Russian airplanes are falling out of the sky due to poor maintenance and lack of parts. Rather than admit this, they will try to cause the same effect elsewhere, then point and say, “See? Nobody has a good airline safety record, it’s all a lie.”
We should hack their systems and cause disruption as well. Sure we have managed something with sanctions and stuff but why not play dirty like they do?
Because no one will do anything about it.
Because Europe lets them. Start doing it back to them and see how quickly things change
Russia’s heading for a blockade ‘for safety reasons’.
Because russia’s putin is a piece of shit and wants to take over the world.
why not counter them? close the NATO lake!
I’m not a pilot, but I deal directly with the aircraft safety during flight and I can tell you, the jamming doesn’t do shit. They fly without GPS pretty well, just get vectored for less than 10 minutes and they get their GPS back online and continue with their flight route. There are conventional navigation systems still online as well. GPS for landing and departures isn’t necessary too, just use ILS/DME/VOR systems which they use most of the time anyway. Unless they are capable of affecting GPS signals in central europe in more serious ways then maybe it’s an issue, perhaps they are just showing their dicks, but other than that, nice try Russia, but you gotta try harder if you want to do something serious.
Because russia is a vodka-addled terrorist country with nothing else but nukes and also because we’re not doing anything about it.
Seems like the fixed bases would be an easy target for partisan attacks. Even if the buildings are hardened there are antennas to hit and keep harassing.
Because it redirects resources Europe could be using elsewhere, like in Ukraine. It also allows Russia to guage responses against them.
They should just pay some poor Russian to blow it up!
Easy peasy.
We just visited Cyprus and did geocaching. The jamming made our GPS equipment believe it was at the Beirut airport. This was extremely annoying and forced us to even take breaks until it dissipated. For some reason the jamming only lasted some tens of minutes at a time and stopped by the evening.
Either give Ukraine long range missiles to take out all ten Topol EW stations and of extra missiles were provided which happened to take out enemy equipment and infrastructure ….. oh well 🤷♂️
Or give some Ukrainian special forces free passage to cross the border into Kaliningrad and do their thing. Plausible deniability and plenty of disclaimers and a fake news blast stating it was the ruZZians 🤷♂️
Because Russia is run by petty edgelords
“The ‘Baltic Beast’ is at it again. Mysterious – or not so mysterious – GPS signal disruption has become a growing problem for civilian air traffic,
not just in the Baltic but also the **Black Sea** and the Eastern Mediterranean. …”
And this looks like this:
https://www.flightera.net/en/flight_details/Korean+Air+Lines-Rome-Seoul/KE932/LIRF/2024-04-19
I was wondering why (South-)Korean Air and two more were over Sevastopol, Crimea.
This is somehow risky. MH-17.
So there are two possibilities:
The plane was lured to fly over Crimea, because it looked like the straight ahead.
Or
The plane flew straight even when the GPS contradicted the magnetic and/or gyro compass.
and only the ADS-B signal (this is what websites like this use) was sent from the plane with the
wrong coordinates.
Okay if this is only a linear offset … but the objective for using ADS-B is not to report
the position of Elon Musk’s private jets, but collision prevention.
Meanwhile, Poland won’t even defend its own airspace which it has every right to do.
Gd, Putin sure knows how to make Western “leaders” look like a bunch of pussies.
Because they can. Nato won’t do shit. It’s infuriating.
Testing the water