War Game Thread: If the enemy shot down our GPS satellites

Does our military not know how to read lines of latitude and longitude? And what other options of communication are there?

Oh. Gotcha. Hmmmm, quite the predicament.

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Is this North Korea in this scenario?

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Let's go with Russia or China

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You only need 3 satellites to find a location

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But the enemy would only need to take out the ones over their country to ruin our capability. Who gives a shite if we can get GPS coverage over South America and Antarctica if we're trying to bomb China

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But the enemy would only need to take out the ones over their country to ruin our capability. Who gives a shite if we can get GPS coverage over South America and Antarctica if we're trying to bomb China

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According to wikipedia a reveiver just needs to receive signals from 3 satellites to find its location. So as long as there are 3 satellites a receiver can find its location.

The logistics and technology of trying to shoot down the entire system is too complicated for any nation to knockout before we launched our anti-ballistic missiles at the enemy's satellite missiles. The more likely threat would be Russians or the Chinese hacking and jamming the signals.

ETA: There was a segment in one of the military channels future warfare shows that detailed this exact scenario. The system is so massive and has backups that an enemy could not knock it out before we responded and that response would more than likely be nuclear. I know your OP said no nukes but we would go nuclear before lost GPS and its backups.

By the time this nation tries to kill our satellites, we would already have ours going for their military bases. Not only would it be extremely hard to hit the satellites, they may still be functional even after they're hit.

Our military still has traditional map and compass capabilities. We'd be fine.