Bulgaria U-inversa su rivendicazione Mosca inceppato GPS dell’aereo di von der Leyen
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/09/04/no-russian-gps-jamming-bulgaria-u-turns-on-claim-that-von-der-leyens-plane-was-targeted-by
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Bulgaria U-inversa su rivendicazione Mosca inceppato GPS dell’aereo di von der Leyen
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/09/04/no-russian-gps-jamming-bulgaria-u-turns-on-claim-that-von-der-leyens-plane-was-targeted-by
di kirime
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this was pretty clear on the evening it happened when it came out that the NIC values had been good the whole time and the part about “they had to use paper maps to land” — even if the GPS had been disrupted, the FMS has a bunch of other modes it can use to navigate (DME/DME, IRS/DME/DME, IRS/VOR/DME, VOR/DME, and then the LOC modes on approach) and Plovdiv airport is big enough that they are not wholly reliant on RNP/RNAV approaches like some smaller airports are; in addition to the ILS system they also have both an NDB and VOR-DME at the airport for navigation. So even if the GPS *had* been jammed it wouldn’t have necessitated a (presumably visual) “landing using paper maps”.
Wow who could have guessed VDL could use a slight inconvenience for political brownie points? Europe is very clearly on the war path with the way their leadership is speaking these days. Even their clear lies aren’t being called out by their media.
To be fair this was a bit questionable, Plovdiv is in the center of Bulgaria for Russia to jam GPS around the airport they will either need to be on the ground in Bulgaria to do so from within Bulgarian airspace using EW aircraft.
Sure they can technically jam GPS and other signals from a ship on the black sea but Plovdiv is like 300km from the coast, you can’t jam that far and even if you could you would jam everything within that 300+ mile radius which means that they’ll be jamming Romania and Turkey, heck Bucharest and Istanbul would have experienced jamming if that was the case.
European Commission spokesperson Arianna Podestà on Thursday at noon said the institution was informed by Bulgarian authorities of GPS jamming, echoing a [press release](https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/04/0109_Pressrelease.doc) shared by the country’s government authorities on Monday.
“We have never been speaking of the targeting ourselves and I was very clear in saying that we had no information in this sense. But we are extremely well aware that this is a matter that … occurs in our skies and in our seas on a constant manner since the start of the war and therefore this is why it’s important to tackle it together with our member states,” she told reporters at a briefing in Brussels. [https://www.politico.eu/article/bulgaria-no-jamming-eu-ursula-von-der-leyen-gps-plane-russia-pm-rosen-zhelyazkov/](https://www.politico.eu/article/bulgaria-no-jamming-eu-ursula-von-der-leyen-gps-plane-russia-pm-rosen-zhelyazkov/)
Why would Russia want to jam UvDL? All European leaders who replace her will be barking at Russia just like her but she’s at least ineffective enough in substance to be an asset to Russia. Would not want to replace her with someone like Mario Draghi who while less hostile openly can actually get some things done.