Spanish Defense Minister’s Plane Hit by GPS Interference

Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles

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A military airplane transporting Spanish defense Minister Margarita Robles suffered a GPS attack when it was traveling to Lithuania.

The GPS interference was blocked by the plane’s electronic defense system, according to a news report by Spanish news agency Europa Press and confirmed by a spokesperson for the ministry Wednesday. The plane was flying over the Baltic Sea, near Russia’s Kaliningrad.