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A SATELLITE JUST REVEALED SOMETHING SHOCKING: GPS JAMMING IS FAR MORE WIDESPREAD THAN ANYONE REALIZED. An experimental navigation satellite called Pulsar-0, flying just 500 km above Earth, has mapped GPS signal tampering from space for the first time and the scale surprised even the engineers who built it. As soon as the satellite passed over …
Hundreds and hundreds of ships. But they’re all in the wrong place. “Oh my goodness,” says Michelle Wiese Bockmann, senior maritime intelligence analyst at Windward, a maritime AI company, as she checks the live positions broadcast by commercial vessels in waters off Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. “I’m up to… 35 different clusters,” …
Major GPS jamming has been reported across Iran, including the entirety of Tehran. Additional disruptions have also been observed across several Middle Eastern countries, and these incidents remain ongoing. pic.twitter.com/6ltKG5kN6L — World Source News (@Worldsource24) February 27, 2026 Iranian media reported “GPS disruptions in certain areas of Tehran since morning hours.” Meanwhile, Iranian universities, including …
Russia’s jamming of the guidance systems of modern Western weapons, including Excalibur GPS-guided artillery shells and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, which can fire some U.S.-made rockets with a range of up to 50 miles, has eroded Ukraine’s ability to defend its territory and has left officials in Kyiv urgently seeking help …