We’ve had boats and aircraft for longer than we’ve had GPS so we’d be fine. It would be a pain but not devastating.
Things like missiles and other devices with no human operator they’d have to rely on inertial navigation systems which are notoriously inaccurate. So that would be a problem. There’s a new system which works on quantum magic nonsense but I have no idea how accurate that is.
Isn’t inertial stuff mainly for ICBMs, shorter ranged missiles don’t care about their position around the planet. Though I think medium range stuff often does use it
My father was an airline captain. When he started flying, VOR was a major navigation aid, and I imagine most airplanes have VOR receivers (highly directional radios). The next big upgrade were inertial navigation systems, but I don’t know if newer planes have then, since GPS was considered pretty resilient, due to the sheer amount of satellites. But yeah, planes have been getting to their destinations by one way or another since the beginning.
We’ve had boats and aircraft for longer than we’ve had GPS so we’d be fine. It would be a pain but not devastating.
Things like missiles and other devices with no human operator they’d have to rely on inertial navigation systems which are notoriously inaccurate. So that would be a problem. There’s a new system which works on quantum magic nonsense but I have no idea how accurate that is.
The missile knows where it is at all times, because it knows where it isn’t.
(Link, if you are one of the lucky 10000)
Isn’t inertial stuff mainly for ICBMs, shorter ranged missiles don’t care about their position around the planet. Though I think medium range stuff often does use it
My father was an airline captain. When he started flying, VOR was a major navigation aid, and I imagine most airplanes have VOR receivers (highly directional radios). The next big upgrade were inertial navigation systems, but I don’t know if newer planes have then, since GPS was considered pretty resilient, due to the sheer amount of satellites. But yeah, planes have been getting to their destinations by one way or another since the beginning.
Planes also use automated celestial navigation since they are above the clouds.