Chapter 1,237 It’s all because of the Global Positioning System
The drone does not need external control and can fly autonomously, but it also has other restrictions. For example, if the fuel is exhausted, it will have to fall. After capturing the drone, the first step is to disconnect it.
Cut off the electricity and oil.
After all this is done, the next step is to find a trailer and tow it to the hangar to avoid being discovered by the reconnaissance satellites flying overhead.
When the RQ-170 drone entered the hangar, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and finally got it!
It took half an hour for someone to realize something was wrong.
"Our RQ170 drone that took off from the Imperial Cemetery suddenly lost contact!"
"what happened?"
"I don't know. It was still fine when flying over the Isfahan base. It sent us data once, but then it disappeared."
"Did it get shot down? Impossible, that was our most advanced stealth drone!"
"Now, the advantages of stealth aircraft are no longer as good as before. Various anti-stealth technologies will allow our aircraft to be discovered or even shot down."
Everyone was talking, and Tenet frowned: "The first thing to do now is to find where the plane is. If it really lands on the land of Parthia, we must find a way to destroy it."
We must not let it fall into the hands of the Parthians. It contains advanced American technology!
"How to destroy it?"
"Try every means to destroy it!" Bennett said: "If the Parthians obtain that drone, it means that the Easterners have also obtained the above technology! We cannot tolerate this situation!"
"Boss, I think we should think about how we should explain it if they really get it. As for destroying it, it is not necessary. If the plane was shot down, it would have crashed, and only the remaining
The wreckage fell."
"Yes, let's just say the plane lost control. How about we get in by ourselves?"
"These are not important, we need to determine where the plane is first."
They were not kept waiting for long. A few days later, Parthia took the initiative to make the news public.
"Not long ago, near Isfahan, our brave fighters captured a US military unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. We once again seriously protest against this violation of our airspace!"
When he saw the news, Bennett didn't take it seriously.
"It seems that they were indeed shot down by them. They may have advanced anti-stealth radars on hand. Damn it, the spread of this technology is not good for us. We must solve this hidden danger... Hey, what happened to that aircraft?
complete?"
Bennett looked at the TV, where a video of the captured unmanned reconnaissance drone appeared. From all angles, it was a complete drone without any trace of being hit.
"Yeah, how did they do it?"
"Could this be the model they made?" At this time, everyone was in disbelief.
A complete drone, what does this mean? This aircraft fell down on its own initiative?
"It's not a model, it should be our real aircraft. Look at its landing gear, its unique metallic texture, it's not fake."
"Could it be that our plane's program failed and it fell down on its own initiative?"
At this moment, the host's words came from the TV again.
"In order to capture this drone, we used the latest satellite navigation jammer. This jammer can not only interfere with the signals of GPS satellites, but also inject false data. This drone flew near our base
After that, it was considered that it had returned to the take-off point, so it landed independently according to the built-in procedure."
Jamming GPS signal!
Everyone understands.
"Damn, they have no authority to interfere with our GPS satellites!"
"This is simply provoking us! We should attack them!"
Everyone was a little angry.
However, they could only be angry. They had no temper at all against the enemy of Parthia. After all, they had used all means, but Parthia had never given up.
"We issued an announcement to the outside world that one of our drones mistakenly entered the Parthian airspace due to a program failure. We hope they will return the drone to us. It is our American property," Bennett said weakly.
He knew that this kind of drone could no longer be used for cross-border reconnaissance in the future. It couldn't be done with the Global Hawk before, and it can't be done with the RQ-170 now. What else can they do?
From now on we can only use reconnaissance satellites!
"The Parthian state is provoking us. They want to tell us that the GPS, which our army relies on most, will be interfered by them at any time!" Someone else cursed: "Damn it, we must solve this hidden danger! You said, we must
How to do it?"
"I think we should install the Beidou navigation system on all equipment."
"What did you say? This is the stupidest plan I have ever heard!"
"This is for the best, after all, they can't interfere with the satellite navigation system they use!"
Dongfang, Huanglou.
"Only one shell of the RQ-170 is left there. The electronic equipment inside has been dismantled and sent back. Our relevant personnel are studying it." Wu Shengli looked at Qin Tao: "Taozi, you have made a great contribution."
"Dad, I didn't do anything. It was all done by the technicians." Qin Tao said: "However, this time it is enough for the Americans to drink a pot. Especially their satellite navigation system. I don't know if all of them are required."
Update it."
This time, we not only want to obtain the Yankee reconnaissance plane, but also publish false information to the outside world.
It cannot be said that they have deciphered their data link. When they change a new password, they will have to decipher it again. Moreover, they are still developing a more advanced Link22 data link. It will be more difficult to decipher by then. In the end,
It's better to use this first.
If you don't tell them the reason, they will definitely guess, maybe they will think of the data link problem, and simply tell them directly that we are using a loophole in the satellite navigation!
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Let the Americans know how fragile this thing they rely heavily on is!
In fact, in the past, there were jammers for GPS, but they could only interfere with the signal. Now one step further, other signals can be directly used instead, allowing the terminal to receive false signals and obtain wrong addresses.
As this technology develops, the U.S. military will face terrible problems in the future: fighter jets will lose their accuracy when dropping bombs, and even fighter jets will no longer know how to fly!
Maybe, following the instructions of the GPS, they would fly to the top of their own people and drop bombs!
After more than 20 years of exploration, the Yankees launched the first official GPS working satellite on February 4, 1989. In June 1993, the 24th satellite was launched, officially realizing global networking.
After that, the whole world began to rely on this advanced satellite navigation system. No one thought about what the world would be like after the failure of this system. Among other things, just a timing service would affect the power grid, finance, etc.
Transactions, etc. In 2016, the United States decommissioned a GPS satellite, resulting in an error of 13 microseconds in the entire satellite system. Just such a trivial error caused chaos around the world for 12 hours.
Now, everyone knows that GPS is unreliable, what next? What will they do?
"In this way, we will have more Beidou users." Qin Tao said: "After all, there are no jammers targeting our Beidou navigation yet. Moreover, with more navigation, there will be more insurance."
Capturing the Yankee drone this time and announcing it directly to the outside world will have many benefits. For example, it will make the Yankees turn their attention to the satellite navigation system. The Yankees will not dare to send drones to the Parthian country for reconnaissance. Moreover,
It will also expand the user base of the Beidou navigation system.
Beidou Navigation, like GPS civilian signals, is public. It seems that even if the user group expands, it will not gain more benefits. In fact, this is just a one-sided view.
The Beidou navigation system is free, but this module costs money! If you want to use this navigation system, you must have a built-in receiving module, and the manufacturer of this module will also make more money.
Who is the manufacturer? Of course it is Mingzhou Group. In order to promote Beidou navigation, Qin Tao helped and contracted the production of these receivers.
Of course, making money is a trivial matter and more of a strategic consideration. Once these users choose Beidou, they will definitely hope that the Beidou system will be more stable and will support them more firmly. If Beidou Navigation can overwhelm GPS, it will become
The world's largest navigation system, that's even better.
After all, these are the two navigation systems in the world now.
Lao Maozi's system has always been in a state of paralysis and is not easy to use. As for the European Galileo system, networking is still far away. Since GPS is unreliable, Beidou can only be used!
"The Americans are updating their GPS satellites. Now that this situation occurs, will they have to throw away their second-generation satellites and continue to develop advanced satellites?" Wu Shengli said.
Satellites all have a lifespan. Lao Maozi's navigation satellites have a lifespan of only half a year, so their network has never been able to be established. After all, they have to keep launching satellites and keep burning money.
In comparison, the lifespan of GPS in the United States is much longer. The lifespan of the first generation of satellites is only ten years. Therefore, after the successful establishment of the network in 1993, a new batch has been successively replaced in recent years. With the development of technology,
, were also replaced by second-generation navigation satellites. The lifespan of these navigation satellites was increased to 12 years, but overall, there were not many changes.
"Yes, we must throw away the second-generation navigation satellites and develop third-generation satellites, and the third-generation satellites must solve the current interference problem." Qin Tao said, "It's just that this will be a new era.
It’s a huge expenditure. Just as the Yankees dragged the Soviet Union to death in the first place, they will drag it to death now.”
Before Qin Tao was reborn, the Americans had already developed the third-generation GPS satellite. This satellite has many features, such as three times the accuracy and eight times the anti-interference ability. These are all improvements on the original basis.
, there is nothing to say. The revolutionary progress is that this satellite adopts the new L1C civil signal, which allows it to interoperate with other satellite systems.
What does it mean?
If you want to get your own position information, you need three navigation satellites above your head. If you add altitude, you need four. In the past, you needed the same model, for example, both GPS or Beidou.
Or they are all Galileo, and this brand new GPS navigation satellite can not only use its own, but also other ones.
For example, one GPS and three Beidou satellites can solve the navigation problem, or one GPS, two Beidou satellites, and one Galileo can be mixed and used. Can't all signals be interfered with?
This solves the problem to the greatest extent possible.
It sounds very advanced, but this kind of advanced navigation satellite is naturally very expensive. In later generations, the Yankees only launched this project in 2016, and they brought in all their big bosses, including Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
and Northrop Grumman, each company received $6 million in funding to begin bidding.
After selecting a supplier, it cost US$1.4 billion to launch only the first two satellites, and the entire project amounted to tens of billions of US dollars.
Back then, the second-generation navigation satellites were updated when they reached the end of their lifespan. But now, the second-generation navigation satellites have just been launched and have to be scrapped. This is a huge expense!
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Wu Shengli shook his head: "No, I think they have another way, such as deciphering our Beidou navigation, and then doing the same thing."
Qin Tao reacted suddenly: "Yes! We need to investigate the R&D personnel to see if anyone in the Beidou team was instigated to rebel, or left the team to go to the United States midway, especially a certain woman..."
United States, Pentagon.
"An attack on our navigation satellites goes too far!"
"Yes, navigation satellites are too important. They are related to the battles and even the safety of our navy, land and air forces. Therefore, we must find a way to solve this problem!"
Although the Americans have long been aware of this problem and have even practiced combat without the support of a satellite navigation system, it is just a drill after all. If the satellite navigation system cannot be used in daily operations, it is really inconvenient.
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"I wonder if we could still fight without navigation satellites back then. Now, can't we be inseparable from navigation satellites?"
After hearing this complaint, countless people present smiled bitterly.
Yes, there was no need for navigation satellites back then. Therefore, when we flew there for bombing, we could only rely on inertial navigation and terrain matching. Although we could fly to the destination, the accuracy was only at the 100-meter level! After flying there, we could still
The pilot needs to determine the target and launch an attack, but now? The Jeddam bomb modified by a simple GPS kit can achieve meter-level accuracy.
Can this be compared?
With navigation satellites, it is much more convenient.
Besides, were there so many drones before? In the era of drones, if you want to know your position coordinates accurately, you have to rely on satellite navigation! No matter how accurate the inertial navigation system is, it will continue to adjust as you fly.
Increase the cumulative error, similar to that of the Global Hawk, which can fly in the sky for thirty or forty hours. If you only use inertial missiles, you will definitely not be able to find the airport when you come back!
"We must develop a new generation of navigation satellites." Mel Birnbaum said: "Only a new generation of satellite navigation systems can allow us to avoid these problems. This matter cannot be delayed."
At that time, in order to develop the first generation of navigation satellites, the project departments of the Navy and the Air Force combined and established a special Satellite Navigation and Positioning Joint Planning Office, referred to as JPO, in which Mel Birnbaum worked. Now, the gray-haired
He is about to retire, but as the top leader of the JPO, his words still carry a lot of weight.
"A new generation of satellites? We have just developed the second generation of navigation satellites. Now just because of this accident, we are going to develop the third generation? Birnbaum, do you know how much this will cost?" Youweite said.
He said, as the head of the Audit Bureau, he has to give out money. Now, where is there so much money?
Research and development requires money, and updating satellites requires money. Where can such huge funds be found?
Youweite would never agree.
"What do you think if we develop a jammer specifically to interfere with Easterners' Beidou navigation satellites? Will this be a cost-saving solution?"
Brand new navigation satellites are expensive, but jammers are much simpler.
"We can interfere, but can we enter the Beidou system? Can we imitate false signals to deceive user terminals?" Mel Birnbaum's face was serious: "How much would it cost to reach this level?
Money? Will it be cheaper than our development of a new generation of navigation satellites? Moreover, in this case, we will all go back to the past era, what’s the point?”
Although I don’t know how the Parthian Kingdom did it, doing so requires very high technology and a large amount of money to research. What they lack most is funds, and even if they research it, it will only hurt both sides.
, if they want to take advantage, they still have to research a new generation of navigation satellites!
"So, we still have to develop a new generation of navigation satellites. For our future and for our three armed forces, this is necessary!" Mel Birnbaum was the only one speaking in the audience: "We have already
We are lagging behind the Easterners in many aspects, and in the field of satellite navigation, we must not continue to lag behind!”
"Everyone, we may have other ways." At this moment, someone said: "What do you think if we can find the technicians who develop Beidou navigation satellites and instigate them to rebel?"
"How can this be?"
"Can those idiots in the CIA do it?"
Turano, who was called an idiot, stood up: "Of course we can do it, everyone, we have found a candidate!"
"Where?"
"It's in the United States!" Turano said: "This person participated in the research and development of the Beidou navigation system, and then applied for our Stanford University. She is currently studying here. As long as she is instigated by us, she will join soon.