"This war has nothing to do with NATO. It's not NATO’s war," Stefan Kornelius, a spokesperson for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, told reporters in Berlin on Monday. "NATO is a defensive alliance, an alliance for the defense of its territory," he added.

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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

We have ships where the entire navigation suite has been replaced with a commercial GPS.

Honestly, that'll do just fine in 90% of cases.

Only issues are:

  • What do you do if some country has maliciously turned off or disabled the GPS satellites?

  • The commercial GPS unit probably isn't very EMP-resistant, so it might quickly be disabled if EMPs start going off all over the place ... as would happen in a nuclear war.

But as long as you're not fighting anybody capable of turning the entire GPS system off and the war hasn't gone nuclear, it should probably be fine.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Sincerely? I'd expect to see astrolabes or sextants being pulled from storage.

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