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by a_humean 203 days ago
The US Military does use GPS, but ordinary civilians don't have access to high accuracy data. Commercial vendors can license for higher accuracy, but its a hybrid civilian/military system with higher quality data for military use cases.
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I think that was previously the case, but not anymore. I can get within a couple meters accuracy on my phone, which is plenty good enough for weapons guidance.
Not since May of 2000.