There has to be some sort of GPS spoofing that’s going on. And there’s been discussion of this of late.
I have not read the linked article.
Now, why a ship would “listen to” their GPS but NOT listen to their ship-based radar is something I have no answer for. Nor do I know if one is tied into the other.
How about lookouts and a pair of Radio Shack binoculars!?!?
I don’t know what to suggest except.... dock’em with bombers in the air taking their patrols. God knows the state of our subs.
It is REAL SIMPLE
Steady Bearing Decreasing Range = Collision, you don’t even need Radar, a Lookout can determine this.
SHEESH
GPS Spoofing? I guess that could be an issue of the ship ran totally on autopilot and there was NO ONE on watch of any kind...
Ultimately, there is ZERO excuse for this kind of accident. Time for MASSIVE shake-up of crew, captains, and those higher up the food chain.
Even something as simple as AIS would have warned them.
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Our military relies on GPS way too much. From the grunt to the battleship the GPS is the guiding light during a battle for fixing points on a map.
To kill us, efff up the GPS and our military is blind. Map reading and basic compass reading is only brushed over and not drilled into the grunts. Why spend all this time, you got the GPS to guide you around. You want something struck with arty, give them a GPS reading, bammmm. Map grids, Whaaa???
I have a GPS and love it but still practice my skills on a grid map when I have a chance.
I would suggest our military do the same.
“is something I have no answer for”
I’m surprised. Previously you had no objection to spouting off on subjects you know little about.
Umm, some of the same navigation lines used by our ICBM’s to get to their target... Would hate to ‘send off a nuke’ to Pyongyang and have it hit San Francisco...
On 22 June, the US Maritime Administration filed a seemingly bland incident report. The master of a ship off the Russian port of Novorossiysk had discovered his GPS put him in the wrong spot – more than 32 kilometres inland, at Gelendzhik Airport.
After checking the navigation equipment was working properly, the captain contacted other nearby ships. Their AIS traces – signals from the automatic identification system used to track vessels – placed them all at the same airport. At least 20 ships were affected.
Isn’t Novorossiysk a big Russian ‘science’ center - a former secret city?