Late on Sunday night, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on social media that all of the operatives of the nation’s security services, SBU, who had participated in a a raid earlier in the day that knocked out about $7 billion in Russian military aircraft within the invading country’s airfields, were safe in Ukraine and accounted for.
The operation was dubbed “Spiderweb.”
“An absolutely brilliant result,” the president wrote.
“A result achieved solely by Ukraine. One year, six months, and nine days from the start of planning to effective execution. Our most long-range operation. Our people involved in preparing the operation were withdrawn from Russian territory in time,” Zelensky wrote on Facebook.
Bit harder in contested airspace and signal jamming galore. They have to use drones with fiber optic cables for a reason. GPS is very unreliable in the area.
Even if America’s GPS constellation is jammed, what about Europe’s? The Russians have to be using something for their own movements.
“Go toward sun, Ivan. They are near it.”
GPS and similar systems are extremely low power, meaning it’s trivial to jam them with a higher powered signal closer to potential targets. And you can easily counter multiple navigation systems by broadcasting over a wide range of frequencies.
Much better to augment radio navigation with inertial navigation, terrain mapping, etc.