GPS jamming over Georgia
During the brief Russia-Georgia war, Russian forces jam GPS and satellite communications across South Ossetia. Civilian aviation in the region routes around the interference. Tbilisi takes the lesson to heart.
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During the brief Russia-Georgia war of August 2008, Russian forces operate ground-based jammers that degrade GPS reception across South Ossetia and adjacent Georgian territory. Civilian aviation in the region routes around the interference; military observers from NATO take detailed notes.
The episode marks the first widely-reported wartime use of GNSS jamming as a deliberate denial-of-positioning operation against a sovereign neighbour. Within a decade, similar techniques will be in routine use across the Black Sea, the Baltic and the eastern Mediterranean.
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