During the NATO exercises, Russians interfered with the GPS system

10 November 2018, 08:06 | Policy
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Air navigation in Finland provided a warning to air transport about large-scale interference with the GPS navigation system in Lapland On this, on Friday, November 9, the Finnish edition of YLE reported, citing data from the Eurocontrol and the press service of the Defense Forces, reports Espresso.

As noted, violation warnings covered Finland from the north of the Rovaniemi region from the Norwegian border and east from Kittilia to the Russian border..

"We have received information from various sources that the GPS signal may be unreliable in Northern or North-Eastern Finland. According to Isomaa, information should be provided to airlines and aviators for security reasons, "the message says.

Before, according to the publication, in Norway, for a long time, there were interventions in the work of the GPS system from Russia.

The Finnish Air Traffic Control ANS also published a warning about Norway..

"In Norway, interference with GPS was announced in late October. On the same day, the NATO Trident Juncture large military exercises began.. The exercise ended on Wednesday. Finland also participated in this event ", the report says.

At the same time, as the authorities of Norway and Finland have assured, the failure of the GPS signal will not threaten the air traffic, since there are other navigation tools besides GPS.




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