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Old 13th Feb 2019, 07:24
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tdracer
 
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Just curious - what are the advantages/disadvantages of a fiber optic gyro as compared to a ring laser gyro? The RLG have an impressively good history of both reliability and accuracy - so what's the carrot with the fiber optic? Hard to imagine 5km of fiber optics being much cheaper than the relatively simple RLG.
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