π¬π§ Considering the sources who suggested the Russians or Syrians were jamming #RAF A400 GPS, it probably shouldn't have been published; but the British press have a lot of tabloid clickbait trash, so here we are. There is no sign this is any different than the past several yrs.
https://twitter.com/thewarzonewire/status/1373053355853934596
π¬π§ Sowing this sort of truism would be the sort of thing a propaganda campaign would do, and coincidentally members of the British military have bragged about their capacity, and willingness, to manipulate the press when it suits their narrative before.
https://twitter.com/steffanwatkins/status/1149660036479639552?s=20
I'm not sure this story comes from "journalism". No dates, times, specific flights, or specific planes were identified, and none of the info shows sign of being fact-checked with any external sources. There are open sources which can verify the RAF narrative, but nobody bothered.
Do I doubt the Syrians or Russians are trying to jam allied gps usage? Not at all. I'm sure they are. I doubt that this story, published in two British papers with barely any detail, is genuine news and not an influence operation, based on nothing that isn't in a NOTAM already.
How didn't either paper ask any questions about civilian vs military GPS signals, and if civilian airliners had any problems those days? The frequencies are not the same for the two, and the Russians or Syrians may be able to target one, and not the other. π€·ββοΈ
If we had specific dates and times of the alleged interference we could attempt to fact-check these claims, but somehow the editors didn't push back on their journalists for *checks notes* facts.
Source 1:
thetimes.co.uk/article/russiaβ¦
thetimes.co.uk/article/russiaβ¦
Source 2:
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/1β¦
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/1β¦
π¬π§ GPS issues near Cyprus are not new, or news, until an anonymous official from a British intelligence agency fed the story, devoid of real details, to two British newspapers. Someone should really be investigating how this single-sourced story got printed. MoD budget time? π€·ββοΈ 
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