GPS Interference Snarls Venezuela as US Warns of Hazardous Skies

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2. I couldn't get the graphic to load

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so I checked archive and found this, which shows it:

https://archive.ph/CQVs2

It also provides the entire story, so if you read it, at the end you will see examples of other situations like this:

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Reports of jamming have proliferated in eastern Europe since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Planes carrying top officials have faced navigational outages, including the UK defense chief last year and the European Commission president at the end of August.

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and here's another pertinent paragraph:

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While it’s impossible to identify the source of jamming, experts tie it to military action. Since the beginning of September, the Trump administration has been destroying small vessels in the Caribbean it says are carrying illicit narcotics to the US. And in mid-November, the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group arrived in the region, a deployment visible in the interference patterns offshore near Trinidad and Tobago.

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It could also be Venezuela:

Similarly, the Venezuelan military has a long history of viewing GNSS interference as a necessary shield. After a drone assassination attempt on Maduro in 2018, the country ramped up its electronic warfare capabilities, reportedly with the assistance from Russian advisors who have long employed similar spoofing tactics to protect the Kremlin in Moscow.

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