In brief: The worrying trend of GPS spoofing, which can cause aircraft navigation systems to show the wrong location or a false time, is a growing problem. This issue is also proving hard to address, ...

Learn how US aircraft carriers navigate when aircraft radar and aircraft GPS fail, using celestial navigation, dead reckoning, and resilient backup systems in contested warzones. Pixabay, ...

In brief: Hacking commercial aircraft to cause complete navigation failures sounds like something you'd only see in movies, but an unknown group has been carrying out spoofing attacks on flights over ...

A plane carrying European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen was forced to land in Bulgaria using paper maps after its GPS navigation systems were jammed. Jamming has become an "invisible threat that ...

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In a recently released paper, the respected analytics firm London Economics determined that the presence of backup systems at the Denver and Dallas Fort Worth airports prevented any noticeable impacts ...

NTSB preliminary report on a fatal King Air crash highlights GPS jamming as a factor under investigation. Here's what ...

Business jets like this Bombardier Challenger 650 and airliners are experiencing GPS signal spoofing in the Middle East, resulting in complete navigational system failures in some cases. GPS spoofing ...

Aircraft flying over the Baltic region have reported a mysterious increase in the number of missing or fake Global Positioning System (GPS) signals with concerns being raised that Russia is to blame.

Few people want to get lost when traveling. But if there are places where being lost feels especially unsettling, they tend ...

Exploiting quantum physics could offer commercial aircraft an alternative to satellite-based navigation, by enhancing the accuracy of inertial systems while avoiding disruption and jamming. Commercial ...