Over the past week, problems with GPS operation have begun to be increasingly recorded in Finland.
Representatives of the country's authorities claim that most of the failures in the operation of aviation and maritime navigation systems, as well as radars, were due to Russian influence.
Problems with GPS in Finland: what is known
In particular, a significant incident occurred in the Gulf of Finland on the night of July 11.
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Naval pilot Hannu Luckari even showed a video on social network X (formerly Twitter) showing a radar malfunction.
GPS was unavailable for 90% of the ships' route – between the Orrengrund pilot substation and Hamina Harbor on the southern coast of Finland – he said.
After these reports, analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggested that the Russians could also jam the GPS of the plane from Kaliningrad, which was carrying then-British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps.
Due to interference with the GPS of the Baltic countries, Finnair, the largest air carrier in Finland, had to cancel flights to the Estonian city of Tartu until they allow planes to land there without GPS assistance.
According to ISW experts, Russia's apparent GPS jamming likely indicates an intensification of Russia's hybrid campaign against NATO countries.
American analysts believe that Russians are thus trying to undermine support for Ukraine and the unity of the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance.
Recall that in January ISW also noted that Russian electronic warfare systems in the Kaliningrad region could have a significant impact on the operation of GPS in Poland and the Baltic countries.
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