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Originally Posted by free View Post
Oh yeah then it could be used on missiles!
Great idea!
GPS has been used in cruise missiles since the mid 90s. Bombs really don't need any great accuracy.

For anyone reading this thread out of interest, I should clarify that the type of differential GPS I was talking about has a relative accuracy of less than a centimetre. The absolute accuracy is much larger, and depends on how long you record data for and how it is processed, but is probably a few metres.

So you can tell how far apart two things are, and the direction between them, with much greater accuracy than the actual position of either of them.
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