Posted on 11/19/2013 9:05:21 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
ГЛОНАСС (GLONASS) Russian GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System), is a space-based Global Positioning System (GPS) operated by the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces. It is the Russian version of America’s military GPS and is currently the only alternative navigational system in operation capable of global coverage. GLONASS first become operational in 1982 and achieved global coverage in 2011. During the first reign of Vladimir Putin, GLONASS became the first priority of the Russian Federal Space Agency, consuming nearly one third of the Agency budget. It was, after all, imperative to duplicate the accuracy of America’s GPS system.
State Department In 2013, Mr. Obama’s State Department will consider allowing Roscosmos to build monitoring stations on United States soil in order to improve the accuracy of GLONASS. (1) The New York Times reported that...
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Sooooooo, we're going to give Putin a better means to target? Isn't that traitorous?
Been that way since before then ... Alger Hiss ring a bell?
What’s just one more act of treason by the Democrats?
The greatest enemy to the United States is the occupier of the White House, followed closely by virtually all DemonRATs and GOPe apparatchiks.
I would put Russia somewhere after them, because Russia well is on its way to beeing freer than we are in just a few years.
The Clintons got the kickbacks last time.
The only thing McCarthy was wrong about was he underestimated the number of communists in the State Department.
Time has long past for it to be closed, everyone fired with no possibility to be rehired in the government, and reopened as a much smaller agency.
Russian GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System), is a space-based Global Positioning System (GPS) operated by the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces. It is the Russian version of America’s military GPS and is currently the only alternative navigational system in operation capable of global coverage. GLONASS first become operational in 1982 and achieved global coverage in 2011. During the first reign of Vladimir Putin, GLONASS became the first priority of the Russian Federal Space Agency, consuming nearly one third of the Agency budget... In 2013, Mr. Obama’s State Department will consider allowing Roscosmos to build monitoring stations on United States soil in order to improve the accuracy of GLONASS.Zero's Leeway ping. Thanks Oldpuppymax. I think the EU is working on a system to update and supersede the GPS system, and it's not unlikely that the Kenyan Born Regime (KBR hereafter) will join forces with the EU on this.
“The State Department’s job is to foster anti-Americanism and world turmoil, at which it excels. At least as far as I can discern.” — Richard Pryor
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