New Systems For Navigation In GPS Denied Combat Environments Tested In Air Force’s Agile Pod
The Air Force is preparing to fight without GPS via new navigational technologies that could be essential to winning tomorrow’s wars.
The Air Force is preparing to fight without GPS via new navigational technologies that could be essential to winning tomorrow’s wars.
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.”
A Pentagon report says ‘adversaries’ launched cyber attacks against systems on the new 30mm cannon-armed vehicles.
Russia, which already appears to be waging a hybrid conflict against the United States in the country, is very likely behind these attacks.
The apparent surge in electronic warfare attacks is just the latest example of the Kremlin’s hybrid campaign against US troops in the country.
The electronic attacks offer the Kremlin a surprisingly low risk way to harass NATO members and other opponents.
Preparing for a world where GPS connectivity isn’t guaranteed sure isn’t convenient but it may be entirely necessary.