Russia's new jammer increases GPS interference on Estonia's eastern border
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A new Russian signal jammer close to Estonia's eastern border is causing increased GPS interference and drone flights are not recommended around the border city Narva, the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA) said on Thursday.

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Estonian officials said Russia has bolstered its electronic warfare systems near its border with the Baltic country.

The Russian army brought additional signals jamming equipment to the area around Kingisiepp, a town around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Estonian frontier, Interior Minister Igor Taro said at a press conference in Tallinn.

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Such equipment has been used on the battlefield in Ukraine to disrupt drones’ navigational signals. However, electronic warfare also causes severe interference to the Global Positioning System, or GPS, used by commercial airplanes and ships.

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    • cub Gucci@lemmy.todayEnglish
      61·
      10 months ago

      If you are really asking me, then the answe is simple: to exercise more control over capital inside Russia. The war in Ukraine will end sooner or later, the sanctions will be lifted and the capital will flow in and out, effectively destroying the authoritarian regime he built.

      But again, my opinion here is marginal and should be taken with a grain of salt.

      Edit: in-flow would be significantly lower than the out-flow as we saw how foreign capital was seized. Unless there will be significant gain opportunities like in the 90s.

        • cub Gucci@lemmy.todayEnglish
          21·
          10 months ago

          I guess the imbalance between out- and in-flow would be the largest challenge Putiln will face after the end of war and soft-lift of sanctions. Not the people going to the streets how the western propaganda likes to imagine it. Will he solve it? IDK, really. Either way, it would be a disaster.