The latest GPS-related news bit from the Far East is the disturbing rumor that North Korea has developed the ability to block GPS receivers, a crucial element of civilian and military navigation. With over 30 GPS satellites in operation by the US Air Force, the service is available to anyone with a device equipped to [...]
In the non-metaphorical field of battle, the position of your military assets is often the difference maker between victory and defeat– and in the grander scheme of things, life and death. It stands to good reason that keeping your personnel equipped with the most advanced tracking technology only improves the chances troops will emerge with [...]
Last week, the military went through a massive signal blackout, rendering all their GPS based equipment useless. The signal was only lost for about 10 minutes, but this begs the question: how vulnerable were we for those 10 minutes? The military is in possession of over 10,000 GPS receivers, which they use on almost all [...]
