Well, the civilian signals are, yes. Their hardware is likely much more accurate.
How else they gunna get a baddie with a stabby-slashy ninja missile dropped by some dude in a poorly air conditioned shipping container somewhere in like, Arizona.
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Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoAs well as the us military intentionally keeps GPS readings inaccurate, as conspiracy theorist as that sounds lol
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 months ago
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This hasn’t been true for 24 years.
Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’ll admit i havent looked into it in a couple years, but I could have sworn this was why real time kinematic positional systems existed. I can’t imagine the crystal timer nor the accuracy of a digital signal could be the issu
(Of course I’m too lazy to google it so take this as scientific as the effort i put in, minimal lol)