Military American spy plane pilots use China’s satellite navigation

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American spy plane pilots use China’s satellite navigation system BeiDou as backup to GPS, US general says

• Pilots of U-2 ‘Dragon Lady’ reconnaissance aircraft have a receiver chip in their watches that allows them to access the Chinese, Russian and European positioning systems, US Air Combat Command Chief James Holmes says
• Beidou went into commercial operation in 2018 and a third-generation service is expected to be up and running later this year

Liu Zhen in Beijing
Published: 9:50pm, 8 Mar, 2020




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The second generation of the Chinese system, known as BeiDou, began providing global services at the end of 2018 and a third phase, with more satellites, is expected to be fully functional later this year.

While the Global Positioning System (GPS) is the first choice for pilots of U-2 “Dragon Lady” reconnaissance aircraft, BeiDou, along with Russia’s Glonass and Europe’s Galileo, serves as an alternative if GPS becomes unavailable.

“My U-2 guys fly with a watch now that ties into GPS, but also BeiDou and the Russian system and the European system,” US Air Combat Command Chief General James Holmes said at a conference in Washington on Wednesday

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

LOL! A backup watch with Galileo, BeiDou, and Glonass is ok. But China uses the US GPS as Primary in its systems hardware.

I don't think they can see their watch under their spacesuit.

 

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LOL! A backup watch with Galileo, BeiDou, and Glonass is ok. But China uses the US GPS as Primary in its systems hardware.

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I don't think they can see their watch under their spacesuit.

Sorry, all Chinese military system use Beidou. I think your information is misinformed...

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Sorry, all Chinese military system use Beidou. I think your information is misinformed...

You only approached near world coverage a few months ago. So how about your stocks of smart weapons? You retrofit them ALL now or were they simply always blind from the start and completely useless against overseas targets? Which isn't surprising...

Even DJI drones were using GPS back in the early days.

 

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You only approached near world coverage a few months ago. So how about your stocks of smart weapons. You retrofit them ALL now or were they simply all blind from the start and completely useless against overseas targets,

You know what nonsense you are talking about? And you think USAF is stupid to equipped with Beidou which not able to cover most of the globe area? Your so called last few area not covered by Beidou are insignificant non inhabitant area which doesnt affected most air or sea route.