Abstract
In early bombing raids against the Nazi war machine, only about 3 percent of British bombs landed within 5 miles of their intended targets. But, during the Persian Gulf War, precision-guided munitions consistently struck much smaller targets with pinpoint accuracy thanks, in part, to the precise positioning services provided by a partial constellation of Navstar navigation satellites.
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Logsdon, T. (1995). Military Applications. In: Understanding the Navstar. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6901-2_14
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