[Az-Geocaching] GPS in the Army

[Andrew Ayre]

The military version has to also decrypt the military signal. Plus I would
hope that the design is such that if a unit fell into enemy hands, they
could not reverse engineer it to work out the encryption system. All of this
adds cost of course. :)

Andy



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Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 2:42 PM
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Ben Dilcher wrote:
> My brother E-5 Sergeant in the US army spends most of his time in a
> Bradley attack vehicles (small fast moving tank) and the Hummers.Says
> that the gps provided by the Army has an accuracy of 2 meters.

Thats not really any better than most modern GPS devices, but I suppose
the govt probably pays $50,000 for each of those.
At least I would hope they are bullet proof or something that makes it
work it :)

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek

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