Re:Planned GPS outages in southern California
by poof131 on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:03PM
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You are right. The military relies on INS and GPS. Most systems such as the navigation in an F/A-18 are INS with GPS to maintain accuracy like you described. I thought JDAM was entirely GPS, but apparently it is only an INS supplement to.[1] Cruise missiles use both plus terrain mapping.[2] Military could probably handle total GPS denial, but it would be ugly, especially since it may mean no SATCOM either. I ponder what WW3 looks like and total space denial seems like a strong possibility. Spoofing is probably worse than denial since it isn't just no information but bad information that could throw off the INS.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_(missile)