Posted on 04/17/2022 2:50:12 PM PDT by NoLibZone
RUSSIA AND CHINA are planning to team up in space to exploit a Brexit Achilles heel that could prove disastrous in Europe, Express.co.uk has exclusively been told.
The warning comes from Chair of the Defence Select Committee Tobias Ellwood after a US Space Force official said Russian forces are targeting global positioning system (GPS) satellites. The probes are used for navigation, mapping and other purposes. The Kremlin has reportedly been blocking the signal in Ukraine using "bus-sized" ground stations to target the Navstar constellation.
Mr Ellwood, a former captain in the British Army, believes it's not long before this becomes a regular occurrence in Europe.
He told Express.co.uk: "This is absolutely where this war will go and this is why many of us are calling for a recognition of how European security will change.
"Behind Russia sits China who will be backing up GLONASS with Beidou.
"It will challenge GPS which is so fundamental from a military perspective – there are so many weapons and communication systems.
Will my Waze routes keep working in the US?
Weapons should be designed to work even if GPS goes down.
I suspect the Russians have been blocking it over Ukraine because it’s been mentioned in the media that we have been giving the Ukrainian army the coordinates of Russian targets which used those satellites. So this is not exactly surprising.
So, this article is confusing. Are Russians targeting US GPS sattilites?
No wonder the Russians are claiming their missiles are “accidentally “ hitting civilian targets.
I can’t pull up the link but this has nothing to do with Brexit (my dad invented GPS).
When I think of NATO, I think of Western Europe plus the US.
NATO is intended to fight to defend any NATO member which is attacked, most likely by the Soviet Union, or, you know, Russia.
Ukraine isn’t part of NATO.
Russia attacked Ukraine.
Why is NATO, Western Europe plus the US, basically trying to start a war with Russia over Ukraine?
This whole thing is going to be a very bad thing, and it’s completely unnecessary. We have no obligation to defend Ukraine. We are the ones asking for trouble.
Fortunately for Xi & Pootie, The Coup For The Joek has redirected those funds to more important things like free phones for illegals, more food stamps and transportation costs for the southern border invaders.
They should have listened to Trump.
The guys at The Duran discuss this very question several times a week.
The neocon coup scum will have their war with Russia.
Exactly.
No argument here. The link on your home page does your father proud. 👍
Celestial navigation is no longer required at Annapolis.
What could go wrong?
Hi.
Celestial navigation is no longer required at Annapolis.
Really?
Land navigation is probably gone from West Point.
Not good.
5.56mm
Yeah but, they got those pronouns flatazzed nailed!
Why is Putin attacking Ukraine?
And exactly what does this have to do with Brexit?
Weapons should be designed to work even if GPS goes down.
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I am quite familiar with aircraft nav systems. There are many other systems, however, they are big, heavy, expensive and take up a few shelves in the avionics bays.
That said, MSM fails to mention how many Ukie Drones ( Turkish supplied) Vlad has disabled/ crashed by jamming GPS signals, about 500 by conservative numbers. The Iranians crashed a few of ours over the years, in fact, you can do it to.
Remember when the trucker in NY had a GPS jammer to jam his location from his company? He over built the wattage- as he drove past LGA and JFK it jammed the airports GPS Nav systems, AND local ATMs…yes, ATMs use GPS time stamps for millisecond accounting.
Maybe you don’t realize thief’s use GPS jammers at ATMs, they wait for a customer to put his card in then jam the ATM GPS signal, it gives them time to approach the victim, grab him with card in hand and coerce the PIN code…oh, the wonders of technology.
With a few internet searches you can buy/ build your own.
https://www.thesignaljammer.com/product-category/gps-jammers/
To jam DOD GPS, you will have to get past their burst encryption, but as Iran proved, ( DOD in a panic) it can be done.
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