The US Army is one step closer to reducing its reliance on GPS after the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) successfully tested magnetic navigation (MagNav) in a real-world flight environment.
Installed aboard an Embraer 170, MagNav provided positioning data during a round trip over the Pacific Ocean from Seattle’s Puget Sound to southern Alaska.
The technology improved positioning accuracy by 89 percent over traditional backup navigation methods during the four-hour, 23-minute GPS-free flight.
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