GPS Tracking Military Applications
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GPS tracking was developed in the 1970s by the United States Department of Defense to improve tracking capabilities of its targets. Since then, GPS tracking have also found other uses. The military applications of GPS span many purposes:
- Navigation: GPS allows soldiers to find objectives in the dark or in unfamiliar territory, and to coordinate the movement of troops and supplies. The GPS-receivers commanders and soldiers use are respectively called the Commanders Digital Assistant and the Soldier Digital Assistant.
- Target tracking: Various military weapons systems use GPS to track potential ground and air targets before they are flagged as hostile. These weapons systems pass GPS co-ordinates of targets to precision-guided munitions to allow them to engage the targets accurately. Military aircraft, particularly those used in air-to-ground roles use GPS to find targets.
- Missile and projectile guidance: GPS allows accurate targeting of various military weapons including ICBMs, cruise missiles and precision-guided munitions. Artillery projectiles with embedded GPS receivers able to withstand accelerations of 12,000G have been developed for use in 155 mm howitzers.
- Search and Rescue: Downed pilots can be located faster if they have a GPS tracking receiver.
- Reconnaissance and Map Creation: The military use GPS tracking extensively to aid mapping and reconnaissance.
- The GPS tracking satellites also carry a set of nuclear detonation detectors consisting of an optical sensor (Y-sensor), an X-ray sensor, a dosimeter, and an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) sensor (W-sensor) which form a major portion of the United States Nuclear Detonation Detection System.
Currently the GPS tracking technology is still widely used in the military.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 5:56 am
This has to be one of the best things to come out, it especially useful here in South Africa where we have a huge amount of Hi jacking on a daily basis, and now a days even the insurance companies make it complusory to have these fitted to a car before they will insure it. Make sense doesn’t it.?