RE: [SG2] Cover Penetration Question for all you Armour Experts

Short answer - yes.  Long answer - sort of.  The US military can add
"noise" to the GPS signal making it less accurate - i.e. position within
100 meters or within 1 km rather than within 3m.  With that kind of
error, using GPS to plot artillery or bombing missions is much more
difficult.

Military units can use a corrected signal or supplement with ground
based signals to remain at the 3m accuracy of GPS.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel Weer [mailto:noel.weer@verizon.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 5:34 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: RE: [SG2] Cover Penetration Question for all you 
> Armour Experts
> 
> 
> At risk of displaying ignorance:
> Does Iraqi use of GPS require access to the U.S. satellite 
> network? If so,
> can the U.S. block their use without disrupting their own?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> [mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Imre A. Szabo
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 5:18 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: [SG2] Cover Penetration Question for all you 
> Armour Experts
> 
> 
> > Sure.
> >
> > They tried that.  You know what happened?  You were
> > paying attention when the US drove two corps around
> > their right flank, right?
> 
> Back then the Iraqi's didn't have GPS so couldn't navigate in the deep
> desert.  That is no longer true.  Besides, last I heard, 
> neither Kuwait nor
> Saudi Arabia are interested in letting U.S. forces on their 
> soil in the next
> go around...
> 
> > You're assuming that your enemy is stupid enough to
> > attack them head-on.  Not a good plan unless your
> > terrain is as restricted as South Korea.  And even
> > then, such prior planning allows your enemy to get
> > beautiful satellite imagery pinpointing down to a 10
> > digit grid exactally where each one of your spiffy
> > tanker graves are located.
> >
> > You loose, when attack aviation or artillery paste
> > every one of your tanker graves at H-Hour.
> 
> Only if the tanks are really there when arty and air show up. 
>  Decoys in
> fixed forts are a great way to set-up anti-aircraft kill 
> zones...  Besides,
> gravel bombs make satelite recon useless for determining 
> which positions
> have tanks in them in real time, which means you are stuck shooting at
> positions that might have a tank, or might be an 
> anti-aircraft kill zone...
> 
> > When was the last time someone drove tanks into
> > marshes in the first place, much less planned a
> > deliberate defense around armored formations in
> > marshlands?
> 
> The Germans and Soviets drove tanks all over the Leningrad 
> Oblast (ok, the
> Germans didn't because they never took Leningrad).  The 
> Soviets specifically
> designed tanks with low ground pressure to be able to operate 
> them in Russia
> year round.  Why?  Because for a couple of months a year, 
> most of Russia is
> a marsh.
> 
> Besides, DS and SG have both grav vehicles and hover 
> vehciles, so you have
> do have the abilty to fight in marshes.
> 
> ias
> 
> 
> 
>