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What’s new: Two items, possibly related.
- Info that Russia is experimenting with PNT from cellular on its drones in Ukraine for GPS-denied environments.
- An item about China creating a military 5G network that can be deployed on mobile assets.
Why its important: It is easy to deny or spoof GPS/GNSS signals, and may only be a bit harder to deny other signals from space. Both Russia and China are very adept at such denial and deception and have terrestrial PNT systems to augment space-based assets. They are continuing to investigate and develop such systems.
What else to know:
- The article from China talks about keeping drones “connected,” but does not say anything about PNT.
- Researchers have shown that 5G can be used for PNT. If you would like to see more than this link, just enter “5G” in the search box on our website.
- 5G is not considered in many PNT alternatives analysis because the PNT capability has not been developed and its attributes for things like accuracy, integrity, continuity, and resilience are as yet unknown.
Russian Drones and Cell-base Nav
Read Jordan Linn’s post on Linkedin here.
