[time-nuts] Old Loran

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Jul 13 19:54:29 UTC 2008


In message <20080713.212635.152643227461323752.cfmd at bredband.net>, Magnus Danie
lson writes:

>Loran-D was probably canceled since GPS happend instead. Several projects was
>canceled or moved into GPS. Both the air force and navy was looking at similar
>enought things.

No, Loran-D predated GPS by about 10 years.  My guess is that it was just
not workable.

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