{"id":1397033,"date":"2026-05-25T09:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-plane-carrying-the-uk-defense-minister-lost-gps-navigation-near-the-russian-border-what-is-known\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:42:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:42:57","slug":"the-plane-carrying-the-uk-defense-minister-lost-gps-navigation-near-the-russian-border-what-is-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-plane-carrying-the-uk-defense-minister-lost-gps-navigation-near-the-russian-border-what-is-known\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Defence Chief\u2019s Aircraft Hit by Suspected GPS Disruption Near Russian Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Royal Air Force plane carrying Defense Secretary John Healy has lost GPS navigation near the Russian border, with London suspecting that Russian electronic warfare equipment may have been the cause.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/defence\/article\/russia-jams-signals-raf-jet-john-healey-kq0x5x27r\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred as John Healy was returning to the UK from Estonia, where the British minister was visiting servicemen taking part in NATO exercises near the Russian border.<\/p>\n<p>According to journalists, Russian electronic warfare equipment jammed satellite communications on board the Dassault Falcon 900LX aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>This left passengers&#8217; smartphones and laptops unable to connect to the internet, and pilots had to switch to backup inertial navigation systems as the plane&#8217;s GPS stopped working.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists note that the interference also affected the operation of certain cockpit instruments. This particular aircraft is used, among others, by King Charles III.<\/p>\n<p>The signal problems persisted throughout the three-hour flight after it passed near the Russian border. It is currently unknown whether the attack on the plane carrying John Healy was deliberate.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, journalists recalled that this is not the first such incident. In 2024, a Royal Air Force plane carrying then-British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps also lost its GPS signal near Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, X,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Royal Air Force plane carrying Defense Secretary John Healy has lost GPS navigation near the Russian border, with London suspecting that Russian electronic warfare equipment may have been the cause. This is reported by the Times. The incident occurred as John Healy was returning to the UK from Estonia, where the British minister was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1397027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1397033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397036,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397033\/revisions\/1397036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1397027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}