Russia will place GPS jammers on 250,000 cellphone towers in the event of war

Next Big Future ^ | October 18, 2016 | Brian Wang

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Putin isn’t gullible enough to trust Hitlery with yesterday’s garbage.
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[Vermont Lt]

I did not know that. I thought the cell phones were passive in that sense. I thought they triangulated from the cell phone towers. That is interesting.

But would we build that tech into a cruise missile. I am a long way removed from even thinking about planning an attack, but I would imagine that command and control (the cell phone system) would be taken out with the first wave.

What good would cell phone signals do to an attack by ballistic or cruise type missiles.

I guess the whole thing is lost on me.

[editor-surveyor]

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All US missiles have had one kind or another global positioning built in since the mid ‘60s.

The first system was called TRANSIT, and was operated by the Navy. GPS replaced that in the mid to late ‘70s.

I’ve used both systems in ground based land surveying. GPS is way faster than TRANSIT was at acquiring a position, and is getting better all the time as older satellites are replaced with new ones with faster processors.

I would guess that military grade signals can easily guide a missile at mach 3 or faster.
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