Most people think GPS jamming is a war zone problem. It isn't anymore. Poland recorded over 2,700 GPS jamming incidents in a single month. An Azerbaijani airliner went down because of GPS spoofing near Chechnya. And Ukraine is losing roughly 10,000 drones per month, not to missiles, but to invisible radio interference. The battlefield where this technological arms race is playing out has already expanded well into civilian life.
What's genuinely fascinating right now is that three completely different engineering teams have arrived at three completely different solutions at almost exactly the same time. Maxar Intelligence built a visual terrain-matching system accurate to 3 meters with no added hardware. SPARC AI built a pure math platform that needs no GPS, lidar, radar, or camera. OneNav is hardening the GPS signal itself with an L5 receiver that's immune to traditional jamming. None of these approaches looks anything like the others.
So here's the question nobody's answered yet: when all three of these are deployed simultaneously, which one actually defines how drones navigate next?
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