SR-71’s “R2-D2” Could Be the Key to Winning Fights in GPS Denied Environments

The advent of the Global Position System (GPS) and the diminished threat of all-out nuclear armageddon left advanced celestial navigation capabilities for a small number of weapon systems and the history books. Advanced and highly targeted GPS spoofing attacks could theoretically be especially insidious as the fake signal could provide data that slowly changes a vehicle’s true location over time, making the anomaly far less noticeable to human operators or to a GPS/INS navigation systems of software logic. Combat aircraft and fighting ships largely navigate using inertial navigation systems (INS) with embedded GPS.

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