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>>>It's fairly standard practice in the military to use Google Earth for air/ground coordination. The US doesn't use Google Earth for fire support coordination
by CapricornNoble 5y ago
>>>It's fairly standard practice in the military to use Google Earth for air/ground coordination.
The US doesn't use Google Earth for fire support coordination, especially with combined arms assets (artillery, air, naval fires). We have dedicated software for that.
https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/advanced-field-artillery-tactical-data-system-afatds/ https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/advanced-field-artil...
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https://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/joint-automated-deep-operations-coordination-system-jadocs https://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/joint-automat...
- kodah 5y agoThis is relatively new then. In 2011, in the Marines, we were using Google Earth.
- CapricornNoble 5y agoAFATDS and JADOCS were mature platforms when I learned them, also in 2011! Agile Client is newer to the Corps but has been used by the other services for a while. The problem with open-source geographic information systems is I don't think they are trusted/certified for accurate target mensuration. I don't have a good resource that explains exactly why/what the impacts could be, but I had a guy in the Fires Cell explain it that way once...