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Radar'd out: GPS vulnerable to high-power microwaves; Commercial GPS equipment, often present in military applications, is not designed to survive in one of the world's harshest electromagnetic environments--the topside of a modern naval warship. One ship's radar can often disable another nearby ship's GPS antennas.
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GPS World
- Article date:
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April 1, 2006
- Author:
- Williams, Stanley F.
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Commercial GPS units are quickly proliferating on both civilian and military vessels plying the world's waterways and can be found in an increasingly wide variety of places including remote navigational systems, automatic piloting systems, automatic control and marshalling systems, public transportation, and numerous National Defense systems to name a few. As a result, our dependency on commercial GPS technology is also proliferating, increasing the possibility of Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) or damage to these units.
The potential effects of EMI on commercial GPS units that are integrated into critical or automated systems could result in catastrophic consequences. ...