In the Baltic Sea, GPS interference has been observed for more than 60 days. For this reason, ships and aircraft frequently gotta change routes. This has late been the case with a passenger aircraft that was forced to change airports. The problems concerning navigation are mainly addressed by Swedes and Norway. Distortions could be part of Russia's hybrid war.
Strong and extended anomalies are noted primarily in the region of the island of Gotland and confederate Oland, reported by Swedish newspapers “Expressen” and “Dagens Nyheter”. Media reminds us that deliberate interference with GPS could have serious consequences for civilian aviation and shipping.
Media, citing Reuters, wrote that on Thursday Ryanair flight from Luton close London to Vilnius, Lithuania due to GPS problems, he was forced to abort the landing procedure. The device yet landed at the airport at Warsaw.
Minister of Defence of Sweden Pal Jonson He stressed that "the government is following the situation closely and remains in close contact with both Finland and the Baltic States, as well as with NATO and the EU". He added that Swedish offices exchange information on this substance and that work was being carried out over increased GNSS resistance (collective name of global satellite navigation systems).
Baltic Sea. Media: Serious GPS interference
Similar problems happen in the north of Norway. On Friday, a communication on jamming and falsifying GPS signals in the Kirkenes region On the border with Russia, the Norwegian Communications Office published (Nkom). Measurements by Norwegian experts have shown that the interference is emerging at an always lower level.
The manipulation of the GPS strategy takes place in the Baltic and to the north of the Scandinavian Peninsula from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The Swedish military as their origin indicated Russia's actions in the royal circuit in connection with military exercises.
SEE: Serious incidental on the Baltic. The Russians have targeted NATO aircraft.
Colonel Joakim Paasikivi, lecturer in military strategy of the Swedish Defence Academy, claimed at the time that disturbances may be a ‘certain kind of test’ before Russia utilized them in the war in the grey region or in the hybrid war.
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