1983 illustration of a GPS satellite. Credit: The U.S. National Archives
1983 illustration of a GPS satellite. Credit: The U.S. National Archives

In the first quarter of this year, roughly 978,000 maritime GPS jamming events were recorded worldwide. Ninety-eight percent of them happened in one place: the Middle East Gulf. It is the largest single-quarter concentration of maritime jamming ever recorded, and more than 1,100 vessels in the region were affected.

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Kelevitch writes on space policy and Gulf security, working from Arabic and Turkish primary sources.