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Old 7th Sep 2009, 17:45
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Yet all military GPS signal use precision code which has a scary accuracy of just within 2ft.
Well, yeees, but only when

a) it's available and not being jammed, and (more importantly)

b) it is in its normal operating parameters and not within one of the known or possible failure modes which could give you bounded or unbounded errors without indications of failure.....
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