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Are ship locations classified? I doubt China has difficulty keeping track. They have satellites too.
by Kye 2y ago
Are ship locations classified? I doubt China has difficulty keeping track. They have satellites too.
- pjc50 2y agoThey almost certainly are while on deployment, despite it being really obvious where a ship is.
- Atotalnoob 2y agoOceans are vast, sometimes there are clouds and storms.
- echoangle 2y agoClouds and storms don’t really help you with a SAR satellite.
- wcunning 2y agoThe Onion Router was invented by the Navy to make ship location tracking hard with visibility of some of the network, so it's classified at times. More importantly, just because you have satellites doesn't mean that it's easy to pick all of that out all the time or to be entirely certain of which ship/which mission, etc. Making it harder is better even if it can't be made impossible outside of subs.
- catlifeonmars 2y agoApp usage not only leaks location, but number of troops; something which is not readily detectable by satellite.
- echoangle 2y agoWouldn’t the crew of a ship be pretty constant though, for this example?
- catlifeonmars 2y agoThe crew would be relatively constant, but ships also carry attachments that are based on the types of missions they are going to complete. So the actual number of passengers would vary.
- ethbr1 2y agoGenerally, no. Specifically, yes. https://news.usni.org/category/fleet-tracker https://news.usni.org/category/fleet-tracker The more valuable signal from app data would likely be op tempo and what phase of a deployment / mission a ship is in. Aside from inferred reasons for changes in patterns of behavior, one going emcon and suddenly dropping all users off an app means something. Also, modern satellites are great, but even carrier battle groups are really small in the Pacific.