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Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

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Re: Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

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Post by stkdump »

gnerd00 wrote: post #142

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One can tell that this is 'from far away'. Europe was hoping that Russia, in their own interest would pursue peaceful cooperation, even when Putin was already talking about 'spheres of influence'. When Russia invaded Georgia, Europe turned the blind eye and was still hoping for peaceful relations with Russia. When Russia annexed Crimea, same thing. Even when Russia was pulling together forces along Ukraines border and the US pulled out their personnel from Ukraine, there were still many voices in Europe that Russia would never invade Ukraine. We can all be lucky that Ukraine wasn't as naive and prepared for this moment, otherwise Russia would probably have invaded a couple more countries by now.

Re: Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

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Post by justsomehnguy »

lenerdenator wrote: post #149
Slow_Dog wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe there are reasons Europe is pulling away from the US? The current US president has threatened to invade European territory, is attempting to impose Russia's preferred "peace" plan on Ukraine, and has recently relaxed sanctions on Russia. He also consistently denigrates the military support Europe's given to the US in the recent past. The US has basically cut aid to Ukraine to zero, while Europe continues to sup…

And? When the Russians invaded Georgia in 2008, Europeans inked a deal for a second gas pipeline with them, Nordstream 2. When they annexed Crimea in 2014, Europeans went to the Sochi Olympics (which happened that same year ) and went to the World Cup in 2018. And this is before you take into account the dozens of smaller incidents. Those aren't "threats to invade European territory", not even ones that were ignored…

Remind us, why US Congress funds a country on literally the other side of the planet?

Re: Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

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Post by wiml »

LiamPowell wrote: post #26
whizzter wrote: post #12

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If you start shooting down stuff in orbit, it'll invite retaliation, but even without retaliation there's a huge risk of a Kessler syndrome (especially with all the stuff that SpaceX has put into orbit in recent years).

> especially with all the stuff that SpaceX has put into orbit in recent years I've heard this repeated a lot but I've never seen anyone do the maths. StarLink satellites are all in very low orbits, so intuitively it seems like most debris from a collision would just end up deorbiting.

LEO is crowded enough (mostly with Starlink) that satellites have to actively maneuver to avoid collisions [1]. There's research [2] arguing that we're probably already in runaway territory in some orbits — that is, debris from 1 collision likely produces more than one secondary collision — we're just way over on the left of the hockey stick curve. A bit of bad luck, or two megaconstellations that don't perfectly coordinate their operations with each other, could move us to the right pretty quickly.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643

[2] https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/sdc9/paper/3...

Re: Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

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Post by badc0ffee »

lenerdenator wrote: post #149
Slow_Dog wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe there are reasons Europe is pulling away from the US? The current US president has threatened to invade European territory, is attempting to impose Russia's preferred "peace" plan on Ukraine, and has recently relaxed sanctions on Russia. He also consistently denigrates the military support Europe's given to the US in the recent past. The US has basically cut aid to Ukraine to zero, while Europe continues to sup…

And? When the Russians invaded Georgia in 2008, Europeans inked a deal for a second gas pipeline with them, Nordstream 2. When they annexed Crimea in 2014, Europeans went to the Sochi Olympics (which happened that same year ) and went to the World Cup in 2018. And this is before you take into account the dozens of smaller incidents. Those aren't "threats to invade European territory", not even ones that were ignored…

The (misguided IMO) idea was that buying their gas and integrating them into world markets would strengthen ties and liberalize them in the medium term.

Nobody believes that anymore, post-2022.

Re: Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

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Post by b65e8bee43c2ed0 »

Joker_vD wrote: post #169
b65e8bee43c2ed0 wrote: post #166

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what was the outcome of the First Chechen War?

Why, the Second Chechen War.

okay, let me rephrase that: would it have taken two wars to subdue that tiny, sparsely populated country had that country been armed with nothing but sticks, stones, and Molotov's?

Re: Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

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Post by inglor_cz »

Npovview wrote: post #127
awestroke wrote: post #84

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Russia is the aggressor. What do you propose?

Playing Devil's advocate, given how much firepower Russia has, why is it so soft on Ukraine. I mean what is the endgoal for Russia here? Tire out the US/NATO Empire just as US did to Soviets in Afghanistan. I sometimes feel like all these events are orchestrated as Simon Dixon talks about them in his videos. https://www.youtube.com/@SimonDixon21/videos

Russia is throwing most of its deployable conventional firepower on Ukraine and whatever robots, KABs, missiles and drones it can manufacture. It is their manufacturing capability which is limited.

Have you seen the Oryx list of destroyed equipment? The defunct Soviet Union produced a shitton of armored vehicles, Russia inherited most of them and they all got burnt in Ukraine.

Re: Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

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Post by lefty2 »

stogot wrote: post #102
sorenjan wrote: post #40

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Yes, it's very wide spread and not carefully aimed at all. It's also not done by satellite but a ground based station. https://gpsjam.org/

Why is Ukraine not jammed in this map? Shouldn’t that be Russia’s priority?

They would be jamming their own glide bombs and drones then. It would be more useful to jam Russian airspace to defeat Ukrainian drone attacks.

Re: Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

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Post by dwa3592 »

platybubsy wrote: post #123
dwa3592 wrote: post #28

Hmm - the timing is uncanny that only 2 days ago I started building a dead reckoning system.

GPS jamming has been happening for years and it's not like dead reckoning is an insane new concept

what are you saying? nothing of what you said is new or unknown.
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