Who Is Messing With Airplane GPS Worldwide?

A wave of global interference threatens air safety.

An airplane is visible behind a barbed wire fence and warning signs with text in both Danish and English. The sky above is white with solid cloud cover. October 27, 2025, 1:49 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

Someone is interfering with aviation in the Baltic Sea region, jamming and manipulating the GPS signals that allow aircraft (and their pilots) to know where they and other planes are. Such interference is skyrocketing in other geopolitical hot spots, too. And every country should be concerned, because GPS interference affects aircraft far outside the immediate hot spots. With this insidious harm against civilian aviation proliferating, no one is safe.

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