Another Flotilla Of Russian Warships Is About To Enter The English Channel
Five Russian Navy warships from the Northern Fleet is about to enter the English Channel, before taking part in live-fire drill off the southwest coast of Ireland
Five Russian Navy warships from the Northern Fleet is about to enter the English Channel, before taking part in live-fire drill off the southwest coast of Ireland
Something quite large appears to be physically at the center of these anomalies, which include spoofing ship transponder locations, jamming GPS, and showing highly inaccurate, but tightly correlated coordinates to certain GPS users in the area.
A new type of GPS spoofing technology, which may belong to the Chinese government, appears to have been impacting shipping in and around China’s Port of Shanghai for more than a year. Unlike previous examples of spoofing attacks, which have typically caused GPS receivers in a certain area to show their locations as being at a limited number of fixed false positions, the incidents in Shanghai caused the transponders on multiple ships at once to show various erroneous positions that formed odd ring-like patterns that some experts have dubbed “crop circles.”
The investigation into the accident is still ongoing, but it has already uncovered confusion on the bridge and design flaws in the ship.
It is increasingly unlikely that Norway’s navy will be able to put the ship, which collided with an oil tanker last week, back in service.
Reports say the ill-fated warship was in contact with the tanker and maritime authorities ashore right up until the accident occurred.