• ButtDrugs@lemmy.zip
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    14 days ago

    Its better performance than existing non-gps systems - not better than GPS. For ships , being within 1nm after thousands of miles of travel is really well performing. Obvious the real play here is weaponry though, since GPS isnt reliable in warfare and on-board sensors can do the detail work of target identification once in an area, the hard part is a way for them to self navigate accurately over long distances without GPS.

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      14 days ago

      The realer play is submarines. You don’t get any satellite signal at all underwater. Before this it was only INS or dead reckoning.

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        14 days ago

        I suspect submarines can also use bottom facing radar to track features on the sea floor. But tracking the gravity should be even better.

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          14 days ago

          Radar is radio, just like most satellites. It doesn’t do well through water. And that would require emissions, which submarines like to avoid.