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From: strohm@mksol.dseg.ti.com (john r strohm)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Electronic compasses and gyros.
Message-ID: <1993Oct28.145514.9232@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 14:55:14 GMT
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In article <TED.93Oct27112856@lole.crl.nmsu.edu> ted@crl.nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) writes:
>of course, inertial navigation may become passe' with gps.

Not bloody likely.  There are places that don't get good GPS coverage, and
there are applications for which you don't want to rely on a resource that
can be jammed by an adversary.  Or you MIGHT be doing spacecraft applications,
for which GPS is not suitable because the velocities involved are too high.
