John Schilling wrote:

If anyone, anywhere, builds a batch of Galileo-guided cruise missiles which
end up killing American soldiers while a large consortium of Europeans are
still arguing about whether to pull the plug, the consequences would be
almost unimaginably bad.

Bad for the soldiers, sure. They would probably be very ****ed off at the
consortium. But the US military does not have a God-given right to control
all sat-based location systems.

I don't think that is the scenario either. They want to keep their own
military location abilities, while jamming everyone else's. And that - well,
that they have even less right to do.


Battlefield and even wide-area jamming of GPS/Galileo is cheap and easy to
do. So I don't think there would be any huge international political
fallout.


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Peter Fairbrother