New technology to replace GPS for Ammo
OK maybe someone here can answer this question that works in government research.How can this work in a small caliber bullets?
I have seen those shells that fire burst down over fox holes but this is not that! Could you track ammunition with this technology or what?
Maybe no one really knows here yet my apologies.
serf
http://www.france24.com/en/20130425-us-army-seeks-new-technology-replace-gps
To that end, researchers at DARPA and the University of Michigan have created a new system that works without satellites to determine position, time and direction, all contained within a eight-cubic-millimeter chip.
DARPA envisages using this technology to replace GPS in some contexts, especially in small-caliber ammunition or for monitoring people.
I have seen those shells that fire burst down over fox holes but this is not that! Could you track ammunition with this technology or what?
Maybe no one really knows here yet my apologies.
serf
http://www.france24.com/en/20130425-us-army-seeks-new-technology-replace-gps
To that end, researchers at DARPA and the University of Michigan have created a new system that works without satellites to determine position, time and direction, all contained within a eight-cubic-millimeter chip.
DARPA envisages using this technology to replace GPS in some contexts, especially in small-caliber ammunition or for monitoring people.
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It is just an extremely small inertial navigation system.
At 2mm x 2mm x 2mm it is indeed small, but one must still consider that it requires a power source, and if used to monitor people or track ammunition, would require a transmitter of some sort. Obviously a transmitter could be jammed as easily as GPS, so this seems to be a better fit for guidance than for monitoring.
Inertial navigation systems have been used for decades in ballistic missiles, submarines, surface ships, etc. Making them smaller allows them to be used in smaller devices which obviously increases the number of potential applications.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
It is just an extremely small inertial navigation system.
At 2mm x 2mm x 2mm it is indeed small, but one must still consider that it requires a power source, and if used to monitor people or track ammunition, would require a transmitter of some sort. Obviously a transmitter could be jammed as easily as GPS, so this seems to be a better fit for guidance than for monitoring.
Inertial navigation systems have been used for decades in ballistic missiles, submarines, surface ships, etc. Making them smaller allows them to be used in smaller devices which obviously increases the number of potential applications.
I think RFID chips report their status when a outside radio frequency energize it and it could still know it's precise location and transmit it when probed with a proper decoded signal. If it has electronic gyros it can plot back to where it's been internally.
However I am not a electronic expert so don't hold me to it.
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