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Beneficial civilian use of GPS is orders of magnitude more common than military uses. Military systems also never require GPS, because you can’t count on the enemy not to jam the signal or shoot down the satellites, so there are always alternate navigation methods. For example, JDAMs also use inertial navigation.

I would not want to work on a weapons system but I’d have no problem working on something like GPS.

I see no evidence for the conclusion to your thought experiment. You can’t just make up a conclusion to support your argument, it needs to actually be based on something.




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