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Re: navigation by soundings.
From: Douglas Denny
Date: 2009 Dec 23, 08:55 -0800
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From: Douglas Denny
Date: 2009 Dec 23, 08:55 -0800
There is a modern equivalent of using soundings for navigation - the ground plotting radar of cruise missiles correlates the continuously found "soundings" with the inbuilt ground profile map carried as a database to guide it to the target. This method is completely immune to jammming.
Douglas Denny.
Chichester. England.
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