alt Hacker NewsWould building something reliant on GPS be the right way to go? We've seen how easy it is to make it not very reliable. Musk has also shown that StarLink/Shield reliability are at the mercy of how he feels that day. Internal navigation still seems the most reliable for Tomahawks
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bushbaba • today at 4:28 AM
They work in GPS contested environments.
hcurtiss • today at 5:17 AM
There is no evidence Musk has tampered with either as it relates to Ukraine.
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lostlogin • today at 4:34 AM
> Musk has also shown that StarLink/Shield reliability are at the mercy of how he feels that day.
There is a strong feeling on HN that because Trump is President, Musk holds zero responsibility.
This way the illuminati remain pure, when Trump eventually dies.
GPS has a special mode for theater-wide military operations that is much harder to jam.
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2025/regi...
You could still jam this but you need to overcome 20+dB of additional gain in the transmission. If the party you are jamming has anti-radiation missiles, you are forced to make yourself an extremely hot and unambiguous target to participate in jamming at these power levels.