{"id":1831555,"date":"2024-05-30T19:28:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T23:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1831555"},"modified":"2024-05-30T19:28:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T23:28:20","slug":"cbc-news-on-russian-gps-jamming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/05\/cbc-news-on-russian-gps-jamming\/","title":{"rendered":"CBC News on Russian GPS Jamming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Airplanes are losing GPS near the Russian border\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xz8Yf4sUeCY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/gps-interference-airlines-1.7213538\">CBC News reports on GPS jamming by Russia<\/a>, which has closed the airport in Tartu, Estonia until authorities could install a backup ground-based beacon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/04\/the-russians-are-spoofing-the-russians-are-spoofing\/\">Russia has been accused of messing with GPS signals for years<\/a>, but the CBC report focuses on the idea that in this case the jamming is at least in part to deal with Ukrainian drone attacks\u2014the implication being that insofar as Estonia is concerned, this is collateral damage (to which Russia is presumably indifferent at best).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cne900k4wvjo\">the BBC News story<\/a> from earlier this month (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/05\/russia-accused-of-jamming-civilian-flights-gps\/\">previously<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC News reports on GPS jamming by Russia, which has closed the airport in Tartu, Estonia until authorities could install a backup ground-based beacon. Russia has been accused of messing with GPS signals for years,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/05\/cbc-news-on-russian-gps-jamming\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[1393,1333,585],"class_list":["post-1831555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-gps","tag-estonia","tag-gps-spoofing","tag-russia","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1844922,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/09\/suspected-russian-gps-interference-affects-european-commission-presidents-plane\/","url_meta":{"origin":1831555,"position":0},"title":"Suspected Russian GPS Interference Affects European Commission President&#8217;s Plane","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 September 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Russia is suspected of engaging in GPS jamming that disrupted the navigation systems of a plane carrying European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on a flight to Plovdiv, Bulgaria: BBC News, The Guardian, Reuters. It\u2019s the latest incident in which Russia has been accused of jamming or spoofing GPS\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;GPS&quot;","block_context":{"text":"GPS","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/gps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1830673,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/05\/russia-accused-of-jamming-civilian-flights-gps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1831555,"position":1},"title":"Russia Accused of Jamming Civilian Flights\u2019 GPS","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 May 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"BBC News: \u201cRussia is causing disruption to satellite navigation systems affecting thousands of civilian flights, experts say. [...] The persistent disruption led Finland\u2019s flag carrier Finnair to suspend daily flights to Estonia\u2019s second largest city, Tartu, for a month, after two of its aircraft had to return to Helsinki due\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;GPS&quot;","block_context":{"text":"GPS","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/gps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1844949,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/09\/more-on-suspected-russian-gps-interference-in-the-baltic\/","url_meta":{"origin":1831555,"position":2},"title":"More on Suspected Russian GPS Interference in the Baltic","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 September 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Lots of coverage at Polish news network TVP World on suspected Russian GPS jamming in the Baltic region. 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