The retired naval officer, who fought in the Falklands War, told Breitbart, “Manual reversion and retention of skills in the event of technology failure is essential in combat and damage situations.”īesides the fragility of GPS, Cam. Parry, adding that “recent examples and developments in cyber and electronic attacks have accentuated and reinforced this risk.” The first thing that happens is that the technology you rely on in peacetime no longer wants to play, either because of a glitch or because of enemy action,” Cam said.
With disabling computerized navigation systems clearly an emerging element of modern warfare, Royal Navy Rear Admiral (Retired) Chris Parry told Breitbart London that now seems a bad time to withdraw traditional back-up means. Now that the war in Ukraine is back on, Russia – and most likely Ukraine – is jamming GPS and other navigational signals to deprive their enemy of navigation and weapon targeting. Even before Russia’s rise to power in Ukraine, GPS spoofing was the technical skill of the most determined type of university student and modern digital navigational equipment for ships transiting the Black Sea that mysteriously operated in the past suggested that the Russians had been testing an anti-GPS weapon for a few years. More alarmingly, a sophisticated attack can even mimic satellites and spoof a location, tricking the device into believing it is somewhere else. Yet this service relies on the receiver’s ability to get this information clearly from the satellites, and since the data is transmitted by radio, it is relatively simple to jam the frequency and blind the device. Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) systems work through a receiver on the ground that triangulates its own position by receiving signals from passing satellites that contain atomic clocks. Yet the push to digital, which the UK Hydrographic Office’s (UKHO) announcement on the matter makes clear as a cost-cutting exercise, comes as satellite-based replacements for traditional navigation are proving dramatically profound fragile by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Navigation charts, the extremely precise plotting of the seabed and above-surface navigational hazards and landmarks with which sailors have kept their ships safe and on course for generations, must be phased out of years ago, the British government office responsible for producing them announced. Even as the UK government considers alternatives to the flimsy GPS systems that power everything from smartphones to warships, the UK’s ocean mapping authority is poised to dispense with traditional paper charts, pushing ship navigators from around the world to digital.
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