New Delhi: It’s a form of electronic warfare that’s typically reported from conflict zones like Ukraine, Israel, or even the India-Pakistan border. But this week, GPS spoofing hit Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. Fake satellite signals misled aircraft navigation systems, sent flight paths off course, and threw operations at the country’s busiest airport into chaos.

Air disruptions over Delhi on Tuesday night were the second-highest in the entire world, according to the flight tracking website Flightradar24, reported the Economic Times . The report added that about seven flights were diverted to Jaipur and the Navigation Integrity Category value, a measure of GPS accuracy, dropped from a normal value of 8 to 0 .

Worse, it’s a national security risk, with aviation experts

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