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What’s new: Lots of activity in Poland assessing the chronic GNSS interference from Russia and looking at countermeasures. The partnership between GPSPATRON and Gdynia Maritime University is a good example.
Why it’s important: The interference is coming from the Russian government in the nearby enclave of Kaliningrad. While users need to take precautions, it requires a coordinated response from government.
What else to know: Kaliningrad is a Russian outpost separated from the rest of the country.
- Before WWII it was Prussian and German. After the war the Soviets annexed it and began populating it with Russians and people from Belarus.
- It is 360nm further south that St Petersburg, Russia and its port is ice free more of the year.
- Ships from Kaliningrad are also about a day and a half’s sailing closer to the open water of the North Sea or Atlantic than they would be at St Petersburg.
- Its location also enables land-based Russian jammers and spoofers to impact a much greater area of northern Europe.
