Timeline for Are submarine launched ballistic missiles still inaccurate?
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| Oct 13, 2016 at 0:42 | comment | added | user13123 | @jwenting and expathead : which is why British forces use satellite GPS but do not rely on it - most vehicles and vessels also use inertial GPS (which does drift over a long time, but is reset at accurate coordinates). Also, British Army surveyors are still trained to map read and use triangulation. | |
| Aug 9, 2013 at 4:05 | comment | added | jwenting | @MartinSchröder GPS was designed to be available during limited conflicts, it was only later that people started using it as the sole source of location data, which is foolish in an all out nuclear exchange where the ionisation of the atmosphere will seriously degrade the signal, and the large scale use of Soviet asat weapons to knock out the constellation was expected as well. | |
| Aug 9, 2013 at 4:03 | comment | added | jwenting | @ExpatEgghead thought real beer drinkers drank in gallons? :) | |
| May 29, 2013 at 3:55 | comment | added | ExpatEgghead | It is now assumed that GPS will not be available during a nuclear exchange. Certainly UK and French SLBMs do not use it. | |
| May 27, 2013 at 20:47 | comment | added | Martin Schröder | GPS was developed to increase the position correctness of SLBM platforms. | |
| May 25, 2013 at 5:50 | comment | added | ExpatEgghead | I drink beer in pints. I engineer in metric. | |
| May 24, 2013 at 0:24 | comment | added | Nathan | @Yannis Rizos. Imagine the Mars Climate Orbiter incident, but with nuclear weapons. | |
| May 23, 2013 at 19:38 | comment | added | yannis | @T.E.D. The US military uses SI almost exclusively (otherwise working with other nations' military forces would have been a nightmare). "Klick" is slang for kilometer, for example. | |
| May 23, 2013 at 12:19 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | +1 for a great answer, although I'm tempted to dock you a bit for using metric units in a discussion of USA equipment. :-) | |
| May 23, 2013 at 8:30 | vote | accept | MattyZ | ||
| May 23, 2013 at 6:59 | history | answered | ExpatEgghead | CC BY-SA 3.0 |