The Polish Minister of Interior, Tomasz Siemoniakhe said Tuesday that Russia is behind Graves GPS signal disturbances which affect large areas of Poland and caused the detour on Monday of a plane from Ryanair that flew from the Spanish city of Alicante to Bydgoszcz (north).
Siemonok has said that “There is no doubt that Russia is involved” in the interruptions that have been recorded in the GPS signal in the Baltic and Poland and has assured that “Polish services deal with this problem”which has described as “unacceptable” since “a long time ago.” According to the minister, this implies “a risk for military security and operations” and the transit of civil planes.
Mateusz Dulspokesman for the Bydgoszcz airport, has told the Polish press that on Monday a Ryanair flight from Alicante was diverted to Poznań (center) “due to the GPS signal interference, forcing the pilot to redirect the aircraft“, which caused a three -hour delay.
The Internet site that monitors interference in GPSJAM communications made a report on Sunday that showed how Almost all of Poland, including Warsaw and the Baltic region, was affected by this problem.
Another Polish service monitoring and emergencies, fog “Many drones in northern Poland” “fell without control or flew at full speed due to deliberate interruptions of the GPS signal”.
Interference for weeks
The Polish Air Navigation Agency (PAżP) issued a statement recently warning about GNSS type interference (Sign that prevents the receptor of a GPS from decoding the satellite signal). In addition, the company Euro-Tachtacographer manufacturer, reported “serious interference” that affected transportationwith position or addressing errors in GPS.
On the other hand, drones users in Gdansk Bay reported incidents related to GPS “for several weeks”according to the Polish press.
A little less than a month ago, the Maritime Office of Poland, in collaboration with the University of Colorado, designed a Special measurement system which was installed in several points of the Bay of Gdansk, on the Baltic coast, to Measure the time it took for interference to extend and determine their origin. According to the teacher Jaroslaw Cydejkoin charge of the investigation, everything indicates that The problems are caused from the Russian enclave of Kalinningrad, north of Poland.
Konrad Musicmilitary expert cited by the Polish chain TVN24he explained that The 341.º Radioelectronics War Center of the Russian Army is parked there And “what the Russians are doing from that place is exactly the same as what they are doing in Ukraine, only the scale is different.”
