There are initial reports that an American MQ-9 Reaper drone has lost contact with its base during routine training over Poland.
A post by the Polish General Command of the Armed Forces reported that “An unarmed MQ9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle of the US Air Force in Europe, performing a scheduled quarterly training at the airport in Miroslawiec, lost contact with the base. Waiting for an emergency touchdown. The services were put on alert.”
Today the Baltic Jammer changed. Starting with normal characteristic yesterday, after running for ~11h 0720Z there was a sudden change in area affected.
A NW sector of about 140°-180° is spared from GPS-jamming since then. It has made the problem almost exclusively Polish. pic.twitter.com/YALkp0zNlN
— Markus Jonsson (@auonsson) March 18, 2024
The situation comes amid increased reports of suspected Russian GPS signal jamming in the region over the past several weeks, which recently impacted a flight carrying UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps back from Poland.
