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| Russia blocks military functions of US GPS stations on its territory |
| 2014-06-02 |
| Moscow: Russia has started to block the military functions of US Global Positioning System (GPS) base stations on its territory, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Sunday 1 June 2014. The move comes as Moscow is seeking to advance talks over the placement of Glonass stations in the US, Xinhua reported. "We have worked out and implemented measures that exclude the use of these stations for military purposes. Now they are under our full control," Rogozin tweeted. Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, confirmed the measures would be implemented from Sunday. Rogozin also said that Moscow has initiated talks with the US on the deployment of Glonass stations on the US territory. The talks are expected to last until August 31, and "new decisions will be made" afterwards. Rogozin warned earlier this week that Russia would stop the operations of the US GPS stations June 1 and might start dismantling them from Sep 1 as a response to Washington's anti-Russia sanctions and its refusal to allow Glonass ground base stations on the US territory. Glonass is the Russian counterpart to GPS, designed for military and civilian use. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #5 This must be looking better and better: UK military creates quantum compass that could be the successor to GPS |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-06-02 18:32 |
| #4 Flying into Khabarovsk or Yuzno-Sakalinsk the GPS nav system on aircraft commonly goes out. Heck - I bought a GPS jammer good for a 10 meter diameter for only 20 bucks! Jamming GPS is one of the first things you'd want to do when escalating. Announcing it is another thing. It'd be more embarassing for them simply not to work and have to have the US announce it. |
| Posted by: Jinetch Ghibelline6418 2014-06-02 12:53 |
| #3 I am with 3dc. Putin can't do squat to block the "military functions" of GPS from "stations on his territory". The story must be for domestic propaganda. |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-06-02 08:22 |
| #2 During the follow on to the Iraq invasion, one of our search teams (looking for nuke, missle, etc) found a warehouse in Baghdad with GPS jammers. Russian made, a little bigger than a hockey puck; put a battery in them and they would broadcast digital 'fuzz' on all the GPS frequencies, effectively killing reception in a 300 meter radius, for about 2 weeks. They were intended to be scattered by helicopter in the path of an invasion. Evidently intended to degrade 'smart' targeting in the terminal phase, I guess the Russians gave them to Saddam to see if it did any good. In any event, they sat unused. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-06-02 07:17 |
| #1 The "stations" that jerk is yapping about had US folk scratching their heads for awhile. It turns out he's jamming the continental drift sensors installed by scientists all over the world to map the movement of the continents. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-06-02 00:41 |