To: Travis McGee
The civilian GPS signal can be degraded over a region, while, at the same time and place, the military one can help pinpoint which hair on Saddam's head to place a JDAM. They probably know this, and thus are probably not relying heavily on using GPS. Now, if Clintoon sold them the military decryption technology...
6 posted on
02/06/2003 7:43:49 AM PST by
hollywood
To: hollywood
My point which I failed to explain was that the dolt who made the comment about Iraq being unable to control a UAV over long distances failed to consider that one can just stick an off the shelf GPS unit on a UAV and make it flay to a waypoint to drop its anthrax spores or other payload.
Especially if your target is as big as a city.
7 posted on
02/06/2003 9:33:19 AM PST by
Travis McGee
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