During air alerts, smartphone users often face problems related to geolocation and time, when mobile devices begin to display incorrect coordinates or time system errors. These "glitches" are not accidental, and experts believe that the main cause of this problem is the use of electronic warfare (EW) equipment, which can even alter or block GPS signals.
The EW can suppress the signal, but it can also, as an element of radio-electronic warfare, change the signal and fake it. This is simply a falsification of the signal from the satellite to the GPS receiver
Aviation expert Bohdan Dolintse noted that in this way the control systems or navigation systems of various devices, including drones, are misled so that they do not correctly determine their location.
And then they either changed their route from the goals they set during the launch, or they could generally return to some other area, for example, in the direction from which they flew
Yakushev explained that he sees a mobile phone in such a situation.
He believes this because there is no authentication, the authenticity of the one who transmits to the transmitter is not checked, accordingly the receiver is like this: thank you for the information, now I am in Kursk. Here is the weather in Kursk, time
Such distortions of geolocation help air defense to screen out false targets during drone attacks. It is easy to solve this problem, it is worth turning off geolocation.
On November 5, Ukrainians began to complain about a malfunction of the clocks in their smartphones: for some users, they are "in a hurry". Also, the wrong location appears on the phones.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces explained the reasons for the violation of the accurate time system in mobile phones during the air alert. Failures occur due to the use of radio-electronic warfare and the replacement of GPS coordinates.
Also, the General Staff advises to turn off the automatic time correction mode in the phone and to take into account that during the announcement of air alarms, the accuracy of the satellite navigation systems may be disturbed.
