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US military systems have always been based primarily on inertial guidance as a matter of policy. They may take optional GPS corrections for small improvements i
by jandrewrogers 2y ago
US military systems have always been based primarily on inertial guidance as a matter of policy. They may take optional GPS corrections for small improvements in precision but they don't rely on them. GPS was never really designed to be a navigation system, even though you can use it for that; the military designed it to be a measurement system. The Soviets could have destroyed it the day it was built, it was strictly a peacetime tool.
Also, what gets exported to Ukraine is intentionally downgraded in many cases, at least from the US side. Much of what they receive was state-of-the-art circa 1990s or earlier.
- ttul 2y agoYes, for sure intertial and star guidance has been in use in ICBMs forever. But if the inertial guidance is far more accurate, perhaps this changes what you can do with conventional ICBM munitions. For instance being able to target something 10,000 miles away in a GPS-denied place with a 2,000 pound chemical explosive rather than using a cruise missile. Now you can take out someone’s leadership from US soil without using a nuclear warhead.
- ttul 2y ago… acknowledge all the problems with launching an ICBM and the adversary not knowing what type of warhead it carries, of course… just ignore me.