• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    We already knew that GPS could be tricked into location drift. I didn’t realize US munitions were depending solely on it for navigation still.

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      5 months ago

      Glancing through the munitions in the article, HIMARS were originally developed and deployed in the 90s, not sure if they have a backup to GPS.

      Thr Excalibur system mentioned does have an inertial guidance system to fall back on but I would assume it would lose some precision that GPS would afford.