GPS: is it lulling the military into a false sense of security?
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The US military's increasing dependence on the Global Positioning System (GPS) could become a weakness that could easily be exploited by its enemy. The US Army expects to deploy about 30,000 GPS-equipped platforms by 2006, while the US Air Force and the US Navy each expect to deploy 7,000. By that time, the services will have deployed more than 500,000 weapons reliant on some extent to GPS guidance. Aware that this increasing reliance on GPS could be their undoing, military officials have begun to take actions to mitigate the effects of hostile forces to degrade, block or mimic GPS signals.
Publication Name: International Defense Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-6512
Year: 1998
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GBU-15 test flies Global Positioning enhancement
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An Enhanced Guided Bomb Unit-15 (EGBU-15) weapon has been succesfully released from an F-15E fighter aircraft at an altitude of 25,000 ft and at a speed of 530 kt over the Eglin Air Force Base testing grounds. The EGBU- 15 is equipped with a Global Positioning System receiver and is based on either the Mk84 900-kg blast-fragmentation or the BLU-109 penetrating bomb. It can also be outfitted with interchangeable TV/infrared imaging seekers.
Publication Name: International Defense Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0020-6512
Year: 2000
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