China's GPS: Military Threat?

gunner · 02-11-2008, 12:33 AM

Defense Tech: China's GPS: Military Threat?

China's GPS: Military Threat?

Peter B. de Selding hit the front page of Space News (subscription only) the other day with a scoop about a Chinese plan to build a 24-satellite navigation network, called Compass, in roughly the same orbit as the American and European sat-nav systems, GPS and Galileo. But there’s more: the Chinese are apparently “threatening” to use an encrypted signal for military ops that would actually overlay – and maybe interfere with – "M-Code," the Pentagon's GPS broadcast. That's the signal that keeps everything from precision bombs to flying drones on track

Hmmmmmnnnn?
So is this is what the Chinese military are doing with the lopsided trade surplus they get from us.

02-11-2008, 12:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
gunner Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 289	China's GPS: Military Threat? Defense Tech: China's GPS: Military Threat? China's GPS: Military Threat? Peter B. de Selding hit the front page of Space News (subscription only) the other day with a scoop about a Chinese plan to build a 24-satellite navigation network, called Compass, in roughly the same orbit as the American and European sat-nav systems, GPS and Galileo. But there’s more: the Chinese are apparently “threatening” to use an encrypted signal for military ops that would actually overlay – and maybe interfere with – "M-Code," the Pentagon's GPS broadcast. That's the signal that keeps everything from precision bombs to flying drones on track Hmmmmmnnnn? So is this is what the Chinese military are doing with the lopsided trade surplus they get from us.

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