All articles tagged with #jamming
A GAO report warns FAA radio-communications used to guide aircraft are vulnerable to spoofing and jamming, contributing to a morning ground stop at Newark, Philadelphia, and Teterboro. The FAA has not completed risk assessments or implemented real-time threat monitoring, prompting nine recommendations that the DOT agreed to pursue and renewed calls from lawmakers to secure aviation communications.
Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and Francesco Zamponi used Anthropic's Claude AI to finally prove why a + b = 1 in the critical exponents of jamming. Claude reproduced the 2014 numerical results and, in 40 prompts, produced a publishable analytical solution, published in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2026). The breakthrough showcases AI's potential to provide fresh mathematical insight in theoretical physics, while also underscoring that human guidance remains essential in steering and validating the AI's output.
Russia is deploying electronic jamming systems to disrupt Elon Musk's Starlink internet used by Ukraine's mid‑strike drone campaigns, with Ukraine saying the Volna Kupol Garant can affect Starlink over about 20 square kilometers and around 10 jammers detected. Ukrainian commanders have targeted jammer sites while Starlink‑enabled drones continue operating; SpaceX did not comment. The aim is to blunt drone strikes behind front lines, though they have not halted Russian activity.
Physicists Parisi and Zamponi credit Claude, an AI model, with sparking a simple idea that, despite initial errors, guided a clean proof that two parameters in the jamming (granular) model sum to one. The researchers refined Claude’s premise and published their result in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, illustrating AI’s potential to surface patterns and literature while underscoring that human verification remains essential.
UT Austin researchers, corroborated by others from the UK, used data from 165 GNSS reference stations to confirm that Russia has been jamming GPS from space since 2019 via a small Molniya-orbit satellite constellation, causing short, powerful disruptions on the L1 band (up to about 10 dB CNr) and also impacting BeiDou. The 2025 study and a May 2026 preprint argue the pattern is intentional rather than a malfunction. The findings underscore GNSS vulnerabilities, spur terrestrial backup efforts by several countries, and highlight policy and strategic implications for space-based EW in great-power competition.
Europe-wide GPS outages occurred in sync for 3–5 seconds per burst; ground stations in Amsterdam and Trondheim timed the intrusion to within five meters and traced it to Cosmos 2546, a Russian missile-warning satellite, suggesting a deliberate, possibly periodic test rather than a ground-based transmitter.
The article highlights the increasing risks to GPS systems, crucial for the global economy and navigation, as demonstrated by recent GPS disruptions at Denver International Airport caused by jamming and spoofing, which pose significant security threats to vital networks.
The US Army is set to test its Terrestrial Layer System-Brigade Combat Team (TLS-BCT) in September, which combines cyber, jamming, and signals intelligence capabilities. The TLS-BCT is designed to provide smaller Army formations with the ability to understand their surroundings, disrupt enemy networks, and counter advanced electronics used by countries like China and Russia. The test will evaluate the system's performance against threat emitters and its ability to conduct mission threads. The Army is investing in tactical electronic warfare capabilities after years of neglect, with the effectiveness of electronic warfare in the Russia-Ukraine conflict serving as motivation.