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On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, M P wrote:

> In modern warfare electronic systems are some of the first targets,
> and can be vulnerable to being disabled.

It depends of what you mean by the "modern warfare".
In the last naval encounter I remember, the Falcland war,
the satellite navigation systems were not targets.

It is hard for me to imagine a scenario when the GPS system
will be targeted. It has to be a war of two superpowers...
Or, perhaps the US can make GPS non-available, if the
US is seriously attacked.

BTW, does the US military still own the GPS satellites, or the
system has been "privatised", as it happened to the Internet
in the middle 1990-s?

Alex.



> > > maintain the skill sets requird to conduct celestial
> > > navigation. Not only is it still being trained in the
> > > Canadian Navy and Royal Navy, but many other worldwide
> > > navies.
> >
> >I knew this, but it is nice to see a confirmation:-)
> >It is still hard for me to see any "practical purpose"
> >of this training, but probably it has to be attributed
> >to extreme conservatism of many people related to sailing
> >and navies:-)    Alex.
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