Posted on Jun 19, 2018
Trump's 'Space Force' Motivated By Russian, Chinese Threats To Critical U.S. Orbital Systems - In...
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Especially the CH actions with anti satellite actions.
Trump's 'Space Force' Motivated By Russian, Chinese Threats To Critical U.S. Orbital Systems - In...
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SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint Distinct Possibility but seeing as I No Longer Have "The Need to Know" My Opinion would be Supposition.
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It took many years as a sailor/Coast Guard Licensed Operator/Navigator before I relied on any electronic navigation system. I was old school. The first time I used GPS on a boat, I was sailing to Catalina Island in a dense fog. Although I was maintaining as precise a dead reckoning plot as I could, I turned on the infernal device. When it beeped to let me know I had entered Two Harbors, I stopped the boat and sent my son to the bow with a flashlight to see what he could see. We had stopped just feet short of a boat that had anchored across the entrance to the harbor. After that I began to rely on the infernal machine more often but kept up my old skills. You never know when a battery will die or someone will drop it overboard. The same is true in the car. I used to have a glove compartment full of road maps. Hell, you can't find them anymore. Now kill GPS and think of what might happen. How many others remember the old school methods? How many would even know which way is up on a sextant let alone be able to use one? And think of all the GPS guided munitions. Etc. Etc. Etc. Yeah, we better start protecting those assets, hadn't we?
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SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint
Good thing out enemies will never think of GPS as our weakness. Good thing they would never try to kill our tech advantage. Why would they do that? Why not...well maybe our enemies want to win?
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint - They depend on ther systems and out GPS also, and GpS satellites can be replaced very very fast if need be.
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Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
Absolutely we need to protect them. We've become complacent and created a major reliance on these capabilities in space.
GPS satellites are not that easy to replace by the way. Especially during a crisis action where the enemy has recently taken them out. In fact, one could argue it could be easier to take them out (and their replacements) than replacing them if the enemy has the right resources. China and Russia have those resources.
GPS is not the only critical system in space which needs protecting either.
GPS satellites are not that easy to replace by the way. Especially during a crisis action where the enemy has recently taken them out. In fact, one could argue it could be easier to take them out (and their replacements) than replacing them if the enemy has the right resources. China and Russia have those resources.
GPS is not the only critical system in space which needs protecting either.
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