There are five possible answers to the question "why does Russia not jam GPS in Ukraine more strongly?", writes Dana Howard, president of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation (RNTF), in the American edition of Defense News.
In her opinion, the Armed Forces of Russia "have an intimidating reputation when it comes to electronic warfare" (EW), which Moscow allegedly does not use enough during special therapy in Ukraine to suppress the signals of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
The first possible reason for this, the author called the inconsistency of Russian electronic warfare systems with the claimed characteristics. The specialist doubted this, because "Russian troops regularly jam GPS signals in northern Norway from places located far abroad," leaving the Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) available in the same areas.
The second option is that Russian troops themselves need GPS. The third is that powerful electronic warfare equipment can be relatively easily detected. Fourth, there is no great need for GPS jamming, since the Armed Forces of Ukraine use a lot of Soviet weapons that do not support satellite navigation.
"Despite the location of the conflict, Ukraine is not an enemy that really worries [Russian President] Vladimir Putin. His concerns are focused on the US and NATO. The deployment of Russia's most modern and powerful electronic weapons in Ukraine will allow opponents to study technologies and tactics. This would lead to the development of countermeasures and would make weapons less effective in future conflicts," Howard writes about the fifth reason.
In May, The Times wrote that the United States and the United Kingdom began to look for an alternative to GPS due to threats from Russia and the likelihood that electronic warfare devices will become the main means of armed conflicts of the past.
In April, Konstantin Kreidenko, editor-in-chief of the journal "Bulletin of GLONASS", estimated the probability of disconnecting Russia from GPS satellites as low.
In March, Dmitry Rogozin, holding the position of CEO of Roscosmos, said that the United States was considering disconnecting Russia from the GPS satellite navigation system.
