Russia Built a Flying GPS Dead Zone - Here's How Ukraine Can Beat It
A Russian propaganda blogger posted some photographs to his Telegram channel last week and accidentally revealed a new Russian tactic aimed at slowing down Ukrainian deep strikes
A Russian propaganda blogger posted some photographs to his Telegram channel last week and accidently revealed a new Russian tactic aimed at slowing down Ukrainian deep strikes.
Best case, he likely got a visit from the FSB (or soon will). Worst case, he might have an unfortunate tumble out of a high-rise building in the near future.
The pictures show an Mi-8, the Soviet-era transport helicopter that’s been hauling troops and cargo since the Bay of Pigs, wearing a set of flat panel antennas along its fuselage that nobody outside Russia had documented before now.
Ukrainian OSINT analysts at Militarnyi studied the images and said the helicopter looks like a flying jammer built to blind the satellite navigation aboard Ukraine’s long-range strike drones.
That’s my reading also. Russia can now fly a dedicated GPS dead zone wherever it thinks the next wave is coming.
Actually, Ukraine got to the same idea first, using a Czech-Slovak carbon-fiber ultralight that weighs about as much as a mid-life crisis Triumph motorcycle.
