Maritime safety experts have warned for years that simple GPS jamming methods may bring risks to commercial navigation. According to U.S. Department of Defense officials, the Russian military is deploying a weapon-based GPS jammer that can effectively stop certain U.S. drone operations over Syria-even hitting those equipped with anti-jamming technology. Drone. As more and more operators consider deploying autonomous ships and aircraft at sea, high-spec military hardware is susceptible to GPS jammers. This is a warning.
Four officials told NBC News that so far, the attack has only affected small surveillance drones, not the U.S. Air Force’s armed Predator and Reaper models. They refused to discuss the possibility of a small plane falling due to blockage. In addition to GPS receivers, high-end drones like Global Hawk, Predator and Reaper are also equipped with an inertial navigation system that does not rely on external signals for positioning.
According to the US Army’s asymmetric warfare organization, in recent years, the Russian military has invested a lot of money in electronic warfare equipment, and its units “overlap these systems to turn off FM, SATCOM, cellular, GPS and other signals.” The use of the Russian army During the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, the Russian army grounded the UN reconnaissance fleet in eastern Ukraine during gps jammer operations, and the communication capabilities of the Ukrainian army generally deteriorated. At the port of Novorossiysk in the Russian Black Sea, the incident did not have a clear connection with the Russian army due to incorrect GPS screens of several merchant ships, but it is reported that the incident affected at least 20 ships.
According to NBC News (NBC News), the jammer incident in Syria has been happening for several weeks. The time and place of the interference was related to the recent round of chemical weapons attacks suspected to have occurred in the eastern part of Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus controlled by the rebels. US officials told NBC that they believed that Russian forces had used interference to prevent the aircraft from moving. Monitor after the event occurs. The United States is currently considering retaliatory actions to use chemical weapons against civilians; Russia, which supports the Syrian government’s Bashar al-Assad regime, denies these attacks.
Five years ago, Ghouta was the site of another large-scale chemical weapon attack: on August 21, the Syrian army killed between 280 and 1,700 people in the area using a rocket loaded with sarin gas, including civilian. In order to prevent Western military intervention, the Syrian government and the United States reached a diplomatic agreement to eliminate all its chemical weapons, and Russia is the guarantor of the plan. The United States claims that Russia has not fulfilled its duties. “It is ridiculous to claim that the Assad regime wiped out its chemical stocks. The U.S. Disarmament Ambassador Rob Wood said in February that it is unbelievable to continue to deny the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons.