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Case Study: Bundeswehr Technical and Airworthiness Centre for Aircraft tests drone vulnerability to GNSS spoofing with Spirent mobile GNSS simulation
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How badly are drones affected by GNSS spoofing
The Bundeswehr Technical and Airworthiness Centre for Aircraft (WTD-61) needed to evaluate how vulnerable commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) were to malicious GNSS spoofing attacks. To conduct this research, they required a platform capable of generating realistic, high-power spoofed signals for over-the-air testing in a secure environment.
Spirent Communications provided its mobile GNSS simulation platform, which utilized the Standpoint tool to synchronize with live satellite signals before broadcasting a more powerful spoofed signal. This setup successfully tricked all eight UAS models tested, causing them to exhibit unexpected and potentially dangerous flight behavior. Spirent's solution conclusively demonstrated the feasibility of manipulating a drone's position through spoofing, highlighting a significant security risk for autonomous flight operations.
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