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Re:USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red ... by rahkiin on Saturday January 27, 2018 @07:54AM (#16246033)
On top of that: isn't the solution for USAF to stop jamming a widely civilian used protocol? Forcing others to keep using old tools and not realy on newer and better tools just so they can jam it at will seems counterintuitive
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Re:USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red ... by gbacon on Saturday January 27, 2018 @08:56AM (#16246219)
The Air Force is jamming GPS. What if an adversary did?
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Re:USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red ... by marcosdumay on Saturday January 27, 2018 @10:25AM (#16246511)
Civilian equipment is often not prepared for dealing with an unexpected war. I don't think this is a problem to be solved.
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Re:USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red ... by dmix on Saturday January 27, 2018 @11:07AM (#16246683)
There's still thousands of planes in the sky whose safety needs to be considered in such a (predictable) event.
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Re:USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red ... by chiph on Saturday January 27, 2018 @07:55PM (#16249022)
It's not a civilian protocol - it's run by Air Force Space Command (the 2nd Space Operations Squadron) primarily for the benefit of the military, but as a matter of policy, the DoD also makes it available for civilian use. The key point is that military use comes first.
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