AS THE WORLD FFOCUSES ON US NAVAL BLOCKADE WARFARE AGAINT VENEZUELA, GREECE MAY HAVE EXPERIENCED AIRSPACE BLOCKADE WRFARE ON SUNDAY WHEN ITS SKIES WENT DARK ON AN UNPRECENTED SCALE, AFFECTED TURKY, ISRAEL, ME
WHAT EVIDENCE IS THERE OF DELIBERATE JAMMING IF ANY?
Greek authorities have not revealed the cause of the problem which resulted in the skies going dark over Greece and much of the airspace of surrounding countries like Buglaria, Turkey and Israel yesterday with no planes able to take off or land.
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/04/greece-ground-all-flights-fir-technical-failure/
At 8:59 am local time (0659 GMT), when most aviation radio frequencies were hit by massive interference, a noise, which suggets an external attack and which forced the shutdown of Greek airspace in an incident unprecedented in scale.
https://en.protothema.gr/2026/01/05/scenarios-behind-the-blackout-that-shut-down-greek-airspace-what-the-civil-aviation-authority-transport-ministry-and-air-traffic-controllers-say/
https://www-newsbomb-gr.translate.goog/ellada/story/1705633/fir-athinon-den-mas-exoun-eksigisei-akomi-ti-synevi-dilonoun-oi-elegktes?_x_tr_sl=el&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Whether the paralysis was due to noise jamming or out of date equipment, it underlined Greece s vulnerabily to an airspace blockade.
However, there are clues that it was a cyber attack and Mitsotakis and his cronies do not want the Greek people to be aware of the fact his attacks on Russia and China are putting them in the line of fire.
A total blockade of civilian airspaces in Greece, Israel, EU, UK or the USA would lead to a rapid collapse of an economy and society in the 21st century.
Air travel and transport is a vital part of economic and trade systems.
Frequency jamming also has a military aspect.
The Greek Air Force claims its signals were not affected by the jamming.
If an actor can shut down the entire signals spectrm of the military as well as the civilian air sector, then it is pretty much game over for that country in terms of its ability to defend itself against an attack.
Athens airport investigators said that the authorities have not been able to explain what happened.
"They simply told us that the system 'returned', without explaining to us what exactly happened or how the failure was repaired," said air traffic controller president Panagiotis Psarros.
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"It is unreal not to know what went wrong and how it was fixed", he said
Psarros said inspectors did their job normally, but did not know exactly what caused the damage or how it was repaired.
"We don't even know what happened and caused the problem," he noted, adding that the employees are expecting clear assurances from the CAA that a similar incident will not be repeated .
He suggests the lack of clarity about what happened meant the incident could happen again.
He blamed out of date equipment, but that is something which could also help a cyberattack or noise jamming.
The Greek secret service and cyber security unit has investigated the incidence, accoding to ERT and the German media.
https://www.mainpost.de/panorama/luftverkehr-nach-technik-panne-wieder-fluege-in-griechenland-113104289
It was stated that a defect in a signals tower about 60 km west of Athens was the cause and there was no external threat.
But at the same time, media report the interference occurred in several different places.
From media
"The authority is investigating a technical issue that caused simultaneous “noise” across multiple radio frequencies for the first time, disrupting communications within the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR).
According to experts, “noise” issues typically affect a single transmission centre or occur as isolated incidents that have been successfully addressed in the past."
https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/international/greek-airports-unprecedented-radio-interference-multiple-frequencies/
Greece's civil aviation authority has investigated.
But the complex cause is still not known.
A Greek Air Force officer reported there was noise jamming, which is a method used in drone warfare.
If it was deliberate jamming, as it seems to have been, then it signals that some actor can shut down entire civilian airspaces at will.
To restart flights, Greek airports and planes had to use back up frequences.
An alternative explanation would be that Mitstoakis jammed the frequencies to stop drones or missiles, but that seems far less likely as the source of the noise was reported to be two particular mountains in Greece, suggesting some kind of non state Greek actor.
From media
Q2. That’s great! So, is jamming all four frequencies an option?
Jamming all four frequencies (or even only one frequency) will likely have a detrimental effect on aircraft and airport operations while the jammer is being used. It may also lead to major collateral effects on businesses and homes around the airport. Jamming all 4 frequencies is an option, but it will probably result in grounding all aircraft and diverting flights. The airport must bear in mind the cost to airports and airlines for suspending operations – not to mention the negative publicity from such an incident!
https://d-fendsolutions.com/blog/is-jamming-a-viable-solution-for-airports/
Interference’ is the unintended disruption of wireless communications, whereas ‘jamming’ describes the deliberate act of interfering with the purpose of blocking communications. In lay terms, it means directing a very strong signal at a drone, blocking out the drone pilot’s signal commands so they can no longer control it and/or the GPS signal. Technically speaking, it’s much more complex than that and, to understand why it’s not suited to airports, we need to know how jamming and jammers operate.
How Do Jammers Operate?
There are two types of jamming: repeater jamming and noise jamming. The most common form of repeater jamming is digital frequency radio memory (DFRM). However, I’ll not cover it in this blog as it’s not applicable to drones, unlike noise jamming which is used against drones.
When it comes to drones, noise jamming is the main type of jamming. It involves three main techniques:
Spot Jamming – The jammer transmits all its radio frequency (RF) power on a single frequency – the one the drone is on. The issue with spot jamming is that it can’t deal with drones which are frequency agile as they use more than one frequency.
Sweep Jamming – The jammer shifts all its power from one frequency to another, sweeping up and down multiple frequencies in quick succession – although not all at the same time. Sweep jamming these multiple frequencies may result in , as the jamming could affect airport systems, which may malfunction or have to be switched off to protect them from the jammer’s high-power transmission.
Barrage Jamming – The jamming of multiple frequencies all at the same time using a single jammer. As we saw with sweep jamming, pumping out RF power to multiple frequencies may have an impact on airport operations. Not only that: with barrage jamming we have a power problem – the jammer spreads its power across multiple frequencies, making it less powerful on any one single frequency and decreasing its effective range.
As you can see, pumping out massive amounts of energy may have an adverse effect on airport systems…
https://d-fendsolutions.com/blog/suitability-of-jammers-for-rogue-drone-mitigation-at-airports/
Interference’ is the unintended disruption of wireless communications, whereas ‘jamming’ describes the deliberate act of interfering with the purpose of blocking communications. In lay terms, it means directing a very strong signal at a drone, blocking out the drone pilot’s signal commands so they can no longer control it and/or the GPS signal. Technically speaking, it’s much more complex than that and, to understand why it’s not suited to airports, we need to know how jamming and jammers operate.
How Do Jammers Operate?
There are two types of jamming: repeater jamming and noise jamming. The most common form of repeater jamming is digital frequency radio memory (DFRM). However, I’ll not cover it in this blog as it’s not applicable to drones, unlike noise jamming which is used against drones.
When it comes to drones, noise jamming is the main type of jamming. It involves three main techniques:
https://d-fendsolutions.com/blog/is-jamming-a-viable-solution-for-airports/
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