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Estonian officials said Russia has bolstered its electronic warfare systems near its border with the Baltic country.

The Russian army brought additional signals jamming equipment to the area around Kingisiepp, a town around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Estonian frontier, Interior Minister Igor Taro said at a press conference in Tallinn.

Such equipment has been used on the battlefield in Ukraine to disrupt drones’ navigational signals. However, electronic warfare also causes severe interference to the Global Positioning System, or GPS, used by commercial airplanes and ships.

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    27 days ago

    The nice thing about jammers is that they’re basically giant homing beacons though. Unfortunately, using them as such is pretty much an act of war.

    Which is the whole point: provocation.