Russian GPS jamming threatens air disaster, warn Baltic ministers - Financial Times
What's New: Political officials in the Baltic speaking out about jamming and pinning the blame on Russia.
Why It's Important: This is the first instance we know of wherein political appointees have spoken out and blamed Russia. This is an escalation in the response to almost four months of pretty intense jamming.
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?Russian GPS jamming threatens air disaster, warn Baltic ministers
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Interference with navigation signals blamed on Moscow has forced two Finnish flights to turn around mid-journey
Richard Milne, Nordic and Baltic Correspondent 28 April 2024
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Baltic ministers have warned that GPS jamming blamed on Russia risks causing an air disaster after the interference with navigation signals forced two Finnish flights to turn around mid-journey. The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania all warned separately at the weekend of the dangers of GPS jamming across the Baltic Sea region, which has increased in recent weeks. On Thursday and Friday, two Finnair flights from Helsinki to the Estonian city of Tartu were forced by the GPS jamming to turn around and return to Finland as they were unable to navigate safely to their planned destination. “If someone turns off your headlights while you’re driving at night, it gets dangerous. Things in the Baltic region near Russian borders are now getting too dangerous to ignore,” Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuania’s foreign minister, told the Financial Times.
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7 个月Question 1, Is this going to be a local issue that will only impacts just Baltic's? Question 2, If the answer no, what are going do about it? All we are doing is nothing right now, yet I have put out information on ways to improve navigation, within the Aviation sector and have looked into this ongoing issue. The clear message I getting so far here in Canada, and this part of the world, is this is not our problem. Therefore no one is looking for solutions, so it is going take a major GPS outage for this to change.