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Comment is against the larger point being made in the article, and I quote: >“They don’t want to be reliant on the American system and believe that their syste
by r0h1n 13y ago
Comment is against the larger point being made in the article, and I quote:
>“They don’t want to be reliant on the American system and believe that their systems, like GPS, will spawn other industries and applications,” said a former senior official in the State Department’s Office of Space and Advanced Technology. “They feel as though they are losing a technological edge to us in an important market. Look at everything GPS has done on things like your phone and the movement of planes and ships.”
> The Russian effort is part of a larger global race by several countries — including China and European Union nations — to perfect their own global positioning systems and challenge the dominance of the American GPS.
- nraynaud 13y agoFor example France doesn't rely on GPS for military purpose, mostly using inertial positioning systems that drift and require re-calibration. (sometimes with dramatic effects like when 2 soldiers got killed in the wrong country in Africa because they had drifted) There is a giant network of ground stations around the world so that french submarine can re-calibrate their positioning system periodically. It's a unique solution that only works when you have territories all over the world, since you don't want to position your nuclear power with a foreign system.
- dingaling 13y agoThe French military have plenty of reliance on Navstar GPS; for example the AASM munitions used over Libya and Mali have GPS as a primary mode and INS, IIR or laser as secondary options.
- nraynaud 13y agoYeah, I was wrong to exclude everything, sorry. As part of NATO, the GPS is used for some stuff. It CAN be completely disabled would have been a more accurate description.