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The US military over US territory are the only ones who can jam GPS at the scale being talked about. Anyone else firing up a jammer is going to get triangulate
by XorNot 2mo ago
The US military over US territory are the only ones who can jam GPS at the scale being talked about.
Anyone else firing up a jammer is going to get triangulated and arrested very quickly.
- franktankbank 2mo agoI think the GP assumption is that there is a bad actor intent on serious harm. I'm not really sure where I side on this. Ideally Defense would be able to conduct exercises without worrying about harming civilians. But that seems impossible to drive to 0. I think the top level commenter comes across as a bit one sided. How often is due-diligence done by the pilots? Could the guidance provided be more well defined and reduce these incidences to several orders of magnitude less? Hopefully the military is not purposefully inflating incidences for nefarious purposes or instigating specific instances.
- ButlerianJihad 2mo agoRemember the parable about the Navy destroyer vs. the lighthouse? Who's going to arrest a satellite?
- XorNot 2mo agoThere are so many things wrong with this comparison I don't know where to start. But for starters, a US Navy missile destroyer can kill a satellite.