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Yeah, I was about to mention that, too. Hopefully today's navy guys still get trained to navigate the good, old classical way, without GPS. They could also do w
by paganel 3y ago
Yeah, I was about to mention that, too. Hopefully today's navy guys still get trained to navigate the good, old classical way, without GPS. They could also do without necessarily having to rely on radio transmissions, as a back-up, of course [1]. That goes for the entire Armed forces.
> In a preemptive strike, Red launched a massive salvo of cruise missiles that overwhelmed the Blue forces' electronic sensors and destroyed sixteen warships (...)
> Van Riper used motorcycle messengers to transmit orders to front-line troops and World-War-II-style light signals to launch airplanes without radio communications.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
- nradov 3y agoYes, the US Navy has resumed celestial navigation training. https://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467210492/u-s-navy-brings-back-navigation-by-the-stars-for-officers https://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467210492/u-s-navy-brings-bac...
- fmajid 3y agoA series of embarrassing navigational incidents may have something to do with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fitzgerald_and_MV_ACX_Crystal_collision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fitzgerald_and_MV_ACX_Crys... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_S._McCain_and_Alnic_MC_collision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_S._McCain_and_Alnic_M...
- scrlk 3y agohttps://www.theregister.com/2021/09/21/hms_severn_fleet_navigating_officers_course/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/21/hms_severn_fleet_navi... > The FNO course takes naval officers who have passed the navy's first-stage navigation qualification, Preliminary Navigating Officer, and qualifies those people to navigate larger ships of frigate/destroyer size. It also teaches them to do it in the absence of GPS, falling back on age-old skills that would have been familiar to sailors in the early 20th century.