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How to Find Who's Jamming Your GPS
Everyone reports that the Baltic's GPS is under attack. Fewer explain how a research team actually found the source, triangulating the jammers and spoofers to within a kilometer of specific Russian sites near Kaliningrad. An electronic-warfare officer on time-difference-of-arrival, and why the moment a transmitter keys up, it starts giving itself away.
Read the report → Report 020 · Defense Tech · 2026-07-11 · 6 minWhen Your GPS Lies: Jamming vs. Spoofing
The headlines say 'GPS jamming and spoofing' like it's one problem. It's two, at opposite ends of the electronic-warfare playbook. Jamming denies your position and you know it. Spoofing hands you a false one with full confidence. An EW officer on why the quiet attack is the one to fear.
Read the report → Report 014 · Defense Tech · 2026-07-08 · 6 minHow Microwaves Kill a Jam-Proof Drone
Jamming can't touch a fiber-optic drone because there's no radio link to break. But in a December 2025 demo, a high-power microwave killed one anyway, by frying the airframe's electronics instead of its link. An electronic-warfare officer on the difference that makes.
Read the report → Report 007 · Defense Tech · 2026-07-06 · 6 minStopping a Drone You Can't Jam
A fiber-optic drone is off the electromagnetic spectrum, so RF jamming and RF detection do nothing. So how do you stop it? An electronic-warfare officer on moving the fight to sound, light, and mass, and making the kill physical.
Read the report → Report 002 · Defense Tech · 2026-07-04 · 6 min'Unjammable' Is a Marketing Word
Fiber-optic drones beat radio jamming, but that's not the same as beating electronic warfare. What a jammer actually touches, and the four ways a fiber drone still dies, from someone who operated the jammers.
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