Anyone familiar with downtown Moscow knows taxi drivers have a very rough time delivering passengers in the middle of the city.

Why? Because the Kremlin jams GPS in the capital in order to protect against Western GPS guided weapons.

It is possible the DHL flight which crashed into the ground on final approach in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, a mile before the runway, could have been impacted by similar GPS jamming out of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad.

Kaliningrad borders Lithuania where the accident took place.

The incident has major implications for civilian aviation, as well as the effectiveness of Western munitions.

The Ukraine war has highlighted a weakness -- the laziness of precision-guided projectiles and the reliance of NATO forces on satellite communications.

As a former USAF pilot who was active during the initial uses of GPS with the MH-53J Pave Low IIIE in special operations, there is a reason flight instructors used to demand pilots could operate with a finger on a map.

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