Looks like the Project HAARP conspiracy theories will be making a comeback.
The magnetic field could also guide missiles to their targets with an accuracy of just over 30 feet.
Seems rather lame.
A compass, perhaps?
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All with a smart phone have it for free and it is amazingly simple to use. If your trip is cross country or cross town, Waze is the ticket
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This is nothing new, I heard about ICBMs using this for navigation, back in the eighties.
Ping.
Before my day in the Air Force, and way before GPS, B-52 bombers and ICBM missiles were equipped with Startrackers that could lock onto and track a star, even in daytime. The obvious problem, however, is cloud cover...
Whoever develops this tech first will win the next war.
Doesn’t the magnetic field move? The north pole has been migrating great distances.
Today’s location should be tomorrow’s location.
GPS is a modified version of my father Roger Easton’s Timation system which he started in 1964. See my book website for more details. www.gpsdeclassified.com
I wonder what Zot would have thought about this navigational development? Obviously a rhetorical question. Blessings in memory of him.
So how does this work if the earth’s magnetic field flips during a war? It’s about due for a flip, as I understand it.
I remember when doppler radar navigation was the thing in then advanced Army aircraft.
This is all fine and dandy. But, The magnetic poles are always shifting. They constantly renumber airport runways because of it.
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LoL! Navigators have been finding their way by compass and sextant for hundreds of years. All ya need is a compass, a sextant, and an almanac and you can go pretty much anywhere in the world. It just takes longer to find out where you are at the moment you decide to go someplace. We had magnetic compasses and inertial nav systems on the old P-3s and a periscopic sextant mount in the top of the Nav station. Used it hundreds of times and we always found our current position and we always found our way home. Magnetic navigation can be tampered with, but nobody ever figured out a way to spoof celestial navigation.
Eh? What’s wrong with celestial navigation?
Stars are visible even in broad daylight. Maybe not to the human eye, but they are detectable with modern (as of late 1970s technology) sensors.
Hell, give everyone a map.
Hey, I had to use one.
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