According to a report just released North Korea jammed GPS signals using super powerful GPS jammers and caused a U.S. reconnaissance plane to make an emergency landing. This happened during the annual South Korea – U.S. military exercises back in March.
The plane was a RC-7B and it had to land 45 minutes after take off due to disruption of its GPS functions by jamming signals transmitted from Haeju and Kaesong in North Korea. The GPS interference was sent at 5 to 10 minute intervals.
At the same time coastal patrol boats and speed boats of the South Korean Navy were affected and lost GPS fix.
As we’ve already mentioned before North Korea owns and utilizes probably the most powerful GPS jammers in the world – with a range of up to 100km.
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