Gomig-21
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Im just concerned with the fact that they will be knowing the satellite locations of some of our troops, something which I find very sensitive.
Are you saying that now with more interoperability in the communications systems, Egyptian troops and movement will be giving up exact GPS coordinates to the US because of certain equipment that will be used in the battlefield that will have those particular coms?
ATM, no one is safe from the enemy seeing their positions on the battlefield anyway, with all the available satellite imagery out there. I doubt any equipment moving around on the battlefield -- such as tanks or mobile SAM networks or launch systems -- will be part of the GPS upgrade that is included in the coms part of this treaty. That's more like a common coms nework for interoperability. When it's time to go to war, unless Egypt is fighting alongside the US, I doubt those will be the same coms used on the battlefield. No one gives up that kind of accessibility, I wouldn't worry one bit about it.
If that was the case, then all the signatories of the treaty would be giving up the same thing. South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Turkey, Pakistan.. and even India and some of these have signed agreements beyond the CISMOA.
The GPS part of the agreement mostly refers to the ability to use global satellite positioning as a guidance system for newer weapons, or upgrade current weapons from laser guided ones to be GPS capable because it comes with the signed promise that the provided US GPS technology will not be shared with a 3rd party without the consent of the US.