New Report Claims Russia Uses GPS Spoofing To Hide The Location Of President Putin

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GPS World: Russia practices widespread spoofing

The Russian Federation is growing and actively nurturing a comparative advantage in the targeted use and development of GNSS spoofing capabilities to achieve tactical and strategic objectives at home and abroad.

A new report titled “Above Us Only Stars: Exposing GPS Spoofing in Russia and Syria,” presents findings from a year-long investigation ending in November 2018 on an emerging subset of electronic warfare (EW) activity: the ability to mimic, or spoof, legitimate GNSS signals to manipulate PNT data.

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WNU Editor: The report on GPS spoofing by Russia can be read from here .... “Above Us Only Stars: Exposing GPS Spoofing in Russia and Syria (C4ADS). This is probably the reason why they are doing this .... Russia 'spoofing' GPS on vast scale to stop drones from approaching Putin, report says (NBC).

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