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From the article: "The Pentagon uses its more remote military bases, many in the American West, to test how its forces operate under GPS denial."
by jlg23 5y ago
From the article: "The Pentagon uses its more remote military bases, many in the American West, to test how its forces operate under GPS denial."
- rbanffy 5y agoWouldn't it just make sense to tell them not to use GPS?
- jdavis703 5y agoIs “them” civilian pilots or the soldiers? Because the military may have all sorts of equipment that has black box GPS functionality they can’t easily control (think of GPS guided munitions for example).
- xxpor 5y agoThat's like saying just pretend the internet is down. The goal is to find unanticipated uses.
- mywittyname 5y agoAlso, "jamming" can include sending distorted signals. These distortions can be a spoofed or malformed packet of data. Knowing what happens when a navigation tool suddenly thinks the vehicle is on the other side of the world is important. As is, ensuring that a garbage signal won't crash it.
- SAI_Peregrinus 5y agoOr less extreme things. Do the soldiers notice when their GPS shows them as half a mile away from where they need to be. In a slowly changing offset.
- wrkronmiller 5y agoThat wouldn't test the software, assuming cheating wasn't an issue
- lolc 5y agoYou know how we established radio-comms in the military? By debugging over cell phone links obviously :-)