NATO Exercise Banned From Jamming GPS

judgecorp writes "A major NATO exercise off the coast of Scotland has been ordered to stop using GPS jamming technology after complaints that to do so would endanger the lives of fishermen and disrupt civilian mobile phones. The exercise — called 'Joint Warrior' — planned to disrupt GPS for 20 miles around each warship"

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More dubiously consider the logic of jamming GPS ie obviously your ships can still navigate with GPS jammed otherwise it would be a really stupid thing to do. So if your ships can readily navigate without GPS , then you can be pretty sure that all other military vessels will be able to do the same.

So this is not a military exercise in the normal sense, this exercise is obviously targeted at military actions against civilian populations, where GPS jamming comes into play, along with of course communications jamming, "it seems that the militaryâ(TM)s GPS jamming also impacted mobile phones, Internet connectivity as well as satellite TV".