Ukraine war: downed Russian fighter jets found with basic GPS ‘taped to dashboards’, UK defence minister says
- Su-34 pilots are relying on the rudimentary receivers to navigate because their inbuilt systems are so bad, says British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace
- He added there was evidence suggesting Russian military hardware was being pushed to breaking point in the invasion of Ukraine
Wrecked Russian fighter planes are being found with rudimentary GPS receivers “taped to the dashboards” in Ukraine because their inbuilt navigation systems are so bad, the UK defence minister said.
Speaking at the National Army Museum in London on Monday, Ben Wallace commemorated those who died in World War II and called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “senseless and self-defeating”.
He also said there was evidence suggesting Russian military hardware was being pushed to breaking point by the invasion of Ukraine.
“GPS receivers have been found taped to the dashboards of downed Russian Su-34s so the pilots knew where they were, due to the poor quality of their own systems,” he said.
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“The result is that whilst Russia have large amounts of artillery and armour that they like parading, they are unable to leverage them for combined arms manoeuvre and just resort to mass indiscriminate barrages.”