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GPS is american, Europeans have the Galileo system, and the russians have glonass. aren't those a backup plan

• AdamJacobMuller 8y ago
  and many "GPS" chipsets actually read both GPS and GLONASS. In the future most systems will probably read at least 3 of the global systems (India and China are also deploying/planning on deploying their own systems).
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• sunstone 8y ago
  If I'm not mistaken China has one in the works as well.
  • sunstone 8y ago
    For some reason this comment collected a few down votes so here is a reference to the Chinese GPS system [1] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_Sy...
• krageon 8y ago
  Yes, but that wouldn't make for a satisfying headline.