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Aircraft. GPS alarm: 60 jammers detected in last six months in England

London, United Kingdom - The usage of GPS jammers is illegal and extremely dangerous for airplane navigation

Sci-Fi countermeasures for new generation pirates in United Kingdom. An English investigation led to the creation of project Sentinel, which use 20 monitor-scanners placed in strategic areas to control jammers usage. A GPS jammer (acronym of Global Positioning System) is an instrument easily purchasable on-line by anyone and, about Bob Cockshott from ICT (Knowledge Transfer Network, the society...

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Rome, Italy, 02/22/2012 15:17
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