The Russian military has been scrambling some US military drones performing in Syria,
seriously disrupting American military operations, NBC announced, citing anonymous US officials.
According to US officials, the Russians had started blocking some smaller US drones several weeks ago
after a “series of alleged chemical weapons attacks on civilians in Eastern Ghouta.”
The NBC network’s sources stated that the Russian military was concerned that the US military would take revenge for the attacks
and began jamming the GPS systems of the drones operating in the area.
“GPS receivers in most drones can be fairly easily jammed,” Dr. Todd Humphreys, the director of the Radionavigation Laboratory
at the University of Texas at Austin said.
The Defense Department can’t certainly state whether the jamming is the cause of drones crashing,
according to the operational security.
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