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> The US would probably rather turn off GPS entirely than deal with American soldiers being donked on the head with personalized grenades every day. Would that
by pavel_lishin 3y ago
> The US would probably rather turn off GPS entirely than deal with American soldiers being donked on the head with personalized grenades every day.
Would that help, considering that GLONASS, or Galileo, or BeiDou or could be used instead?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou
- reactordev 3y agoNo, it’s not like the internet where you can just turn it off. GPS modules use the 3 major bands (2 at least) in case of failure so you would have to create a localized EMF field to block the radio of a UAV. Turning off GPS will not deter a drone that has a commercial grade or better GPS module. You are correct that most (all?) the “GPS” modules used for drones would fallback to one or more of the above alternatives to GPS.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoI think the comment I was replying to was talking about the United States literally shutting down the GPS satellites and the signals they send out.
- reactordev 3y agoRight, which is why I said it wouldn’t make a difference as the drones GPS modules would just switch to one of the ones you listed.