Test Flight Success Could Spell the End for GPS Jamming

A quantum-based navigation system immune to GPS jamming has passed flight trials and could soon be used by British military jets and civilian airliners. Scientists fear Britain’s current reliance on GPS (global positioning system) could create a vulnerability, in which a hostile actor can jam or spoof signals leading to massive economic disruption as well as the potential to undermine the country’s air defences. Currently planes are sometimes targeted by “hostile actors” which block or spoof their GPS but manufacturers of the new quantum-based positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) system say it is tamper-proof. Flight trials have been completed at the Ministry of Defence’s Boscombe Down air base in Wiltshire....