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> Had the US not provided In this hypothetical you'd need to assume that there was also no civilian access to GLONASS, BeiDou, or Galileo.
by bigbillheck 5y ago
> Had the US not provided
In this hypothetical you'd need to assume that there was also no civilian access to GLONASS, BeiDou, or Galileo.
- varjag 5y agoWhich is a fair assumption. GPS going civilian in the 1980s was an incredible thing, so was the lifting of selective availability two decades ago. Without American govt spoiling the market there'd be little incentive.
- abeppu 5y agoAnd people forget, the Reagan administration only made a point of ensuring future civilian access to GPS after Soviet air forces shot down a commercial airliner (KAL 007) that mistakenly wandered into their airspace. Had such an incident not occurred, it might have been kept for only military use.