There's life in the old dog yet.
Three airports in the eastern part of Finland will bring back the use of old-style radio navigation equipment to facilitate aircraft landings when incidents of GPS disruption are detected.
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https://yle.fi/a/74-20123117All three of these airfields are close enough to the Russian border to be well within GPS jamming range, although Russia naturally denies responsibility. All three have ILS and VOR/DME equipment on site, but it seems that the latter had been decommissioned. Even if it hadn't, there is currently no approved procedure to use VOR/DME to intercept the ILS; instead, pilots are required to follow a GPS track. After several jamming incidents where flights have had to return to Helsinki, it seems that the authorities here are realising the value of ground-based navaids that they control.
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