The Global Positioning System that provides everything from personal navigation in private cars to military precision strike capabilities could start to falter as early as next year, according to a recent government report.
The U.S. Air Force currently controls 30 satellites used for GPS, but some of those aging spacecraft could start to fail, resulting in [...]
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Aging satellites might send GPSs incomplete directions | Stars and Stripes
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Buying Night Vision, Nuke Gear? Too Easy, Investigators Find
Posted by Matt in June 5th, 2009 | 1 comment
Published in Military Tech, Body Armor, Chips, Danger Room, Digital Radios, Electronic Sensors, Explosive Devices, Gaps, Government Accountability Office, Investigators, Military Armor, Military Gear, Military Radios, Missile Guidance, Night Vision Goggles, Nuclear Weapons, Nuke, Special Forces
Night vision goggles. Missile guidance chips. Triggered spark gaps used to detonate nuclear weapons. Electronic sensors used in improvised explosive devices. Military-grade body armor. Digital radios employed by U.S. Special Forces. Tags, to let troops identify one another in the dark. That’s just some of the sensitive military gear that investigators from the Government Accountability [...]
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