• @[email protected]
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    Blowing up the GPS satellites is certainly an option and there’s not much we could do to stop them. We know that China has succesfuly tested an anti-satellite missile in 2007. I would not be surprised if Russia was working on the technology at the same time. If they can’t or don’t want to blow up the satellites, then they could perhaps launch their own jamming satellites to orbit near the existing GPS satellites would work.

    Edit: It just occurred to me that you don’t need to jam them. Just put up your own satellites that mimic the GPS satellites to throw off the calculations of anyone trying to use them. Your devices wouldn’t know which signals were legit.

    • Skua
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      The Soviet Union proved that it was able to shoot down satellites in the 60s. The technical difficulty of hitting a satellite with a missile is not really an obstacle here

      • @[email protected]
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        Yeah, the Soviet union could also mass produce tanks and planes. Russia today…

        Glances at Ukraine

        Is using almost exclusively Soviet stock.

      • @[email protected]
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        It may not be a problem technology wise, but do they really have the equipment today to blow up dozens of satellites?
        I seriously doubt it, Russia isn’t the Soviet Union, they seem less capable, and corruption would probably have undermined the program even if it still existed.
        And even if they can, can they also do it without harming their own and China’s geopositioning systems?

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          54 months ago

          And even if they can, can they also do it without harming their own and China’s geopositioning systems?

          Nope, they can’t. And not only that, destroying that many satellites is almost assuredly going to trigger Kessler Syndrome and lock out space for the most part for a good long while.

    • borari
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      Just put up your own satellites that mimic the GPS satellites to throw off the calculations of anyone trying to use them. Your devices wouldn’t know which signals were legit.

      Do this, then get absolutely raw dog fucked by the US (and any other competent) military, who has absolutely no issue with ground nav or weapons guidance because they all use encrypted GPS signals.

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      China doing it in 2007 was big news because they joined the club. The West and Russia has had the capability for decades.

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      34 months ago

      You don’t need satellites in space to shift GPS, they’ve been messing with it in war zones for years, and AWACS like planes could do it in real time anywhere they won’t get shot down.