The military, in fact, turned OFF the encoding during the gulf war because
they didn't have enough mil-spec GPS units for the troops. So the turned off
the encoding and supplied civilian GPS receivers to the field.
>The military uses a very sophisticated algorithm to encode/decode the built
>in error of GPS. It is my understanding that they can and do change the
>algorithm at irregular intervals (like during George Bush's War-to
>- -Keep-Cheap-Oil-Prices...er, I mean War-Against-Naked-Aggression (aka The
>Persian Gulf War)).
No, it's NOT a GPS reciever that decodes the US system - It's a complete
separate system called GLONASS. And it has no encryption.
> While it's hard to imagine Russian anything being
>better or more accurate that its American counterpart, even if you did get
>a Russian GPS unit that could decode the GPS error, it would only last
>until the military changed their code.
They WERE available, other than the fact that the US military bought most of
them and drove up the prices! GPS wouldn't tell the Iragi where the U.S. (or
anyone else's) troops were.
> I don't know why you're so upset
>about this. Would you really want GPS units readily available that would
>have allowed Iraqi artillery units to accurately target U.S. troops?
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