• Em Adespoton
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    111 month 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.

    • @Haquer
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      1 month 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.

      • Saik0
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        21 month ago

        Himars is based off of Vietnam era mlrs. There’s a lot of carry over… assuming “90s” is very generous.