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by cocoablazing 3031 days ago
USN ballistic missile submarines deploy the most accurate INS in the world (ESGN), and that system is used in conjunction with another advanced gyro.
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Not sure about that. ESGN is old technology, since submarines don't need that much accuracy. For example, space probes, ballistic missiles, smart artillery shells/rockets/missiles and so on would all appear to have multiple orders of magnitude better accuracy than submarines, in the fractional ppb ranges, rather than tens of ppm. [0][1]

0. https://www.sto.nato.int/publications/STO%20Meeting%20Procee...

1. http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~Jonghyuk.Kim/teaching/Inertial...

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