The European Aviation Safety Agency warned back in January that authorities had seen a 'sharp rise' in jamming in recent months, particularly over the Baltic states
Finnair this week announced it was suspending flights to Tartu due to jamming Russia is responsible for GPS jamming that has disrupted thousands of European flights and caused a Finnish air carrier to stop travel to Estonia, the country's Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna has declared.
At the time, military chiefs warned that a secretive Russian system known as Tobol, based in Kaliningrad, could be interfering with signals on planes and boats, causing them to 'malfunction'. Though the minister did not offer specifics, open-source investigators also concurred with his assessment, plotting a chart of flight paths of aircraft that had experienced jamming and working to find the intersection where the disruption to signals was most intense.
This matched frequency overwhelms the GPS receiver aboard these crafts and confuses the navigation system. Jamming GPS signals reduces the accuracy of various missiles and drones used by Ukraine - including Western-provided GMLRS rockets 'What we have seen is a malfunctioning of GPS for ships and air traffic,' General Harem, commander of the Estonian Defence Forces, told the Telegraph.
'Wherever there is a large Russian garrison you are seeing GPS denial and there is one in Kaliningrad,' he said.Jamming GPS signals reduces the accuracy of various missiles and drones used by Ukraine
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