Electronic Warfare in Orbit: Russia Possesses the Technical Capability to Jam Global Satellite Navigation Systems.
It can block GPS signal reception across continental-scale territories, and China's Beidou satellite signals would also be affected.
As reported by "First Russian" on June 11.
Physicists from the University of Texas have confirmed that Russia has the technical capability to interfere with global satellite navigation systems.
Since 2019, Western experts have observed interference over Western Europe, Greenland, and the United States.
They recorded 75 such incidents, each lasting up to 10 seconds.
By tracing the source of interference, they linked these events to a small group of Russian satellites, known by Americans as “Lightning” satellites.
Dana Howard, one of the co-authors of the study, stated that merely making minor frequency adjustments and increasing transmitter power would be sufficient to block GPS signal reception across continental-scale territories, with China’s Beidou satellite signals similarly disrupted.
However, it must be understood that the so-called “Lightning” satellite group may not have enough energy reserves to sustain long-term suppression of GPS signals—something crucial in low-speed drone warfare.
Moreover, the key challenge for Russia is not GPS, but Starlink.
Nevertheless, this line of development remains promising.
Deploying electronic warfare equipment into orbit could be the key to defeating Ukraine.
After 2019, the Russian military, leveraging the EKS (Unified Space System) early-warning satellite constellation, gained the capability to conduct intercontinental-level GNSS jamming from the 38,000 km Molniya orbit, covering most of Europe and North America.
Six EKS ballistic missile early-warning satellites, operating at high orbits with high-power onboard transmitters, have been reconfigured via software to enable GNSS jamming capabilities.
This is significant: Russia is the first country globally to possess space-based interference capability, enabling sudden, covert suppression of navigation signals anywhere on Earth—particularly in the Northern Hemisphere.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1867662475780099/
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