Pakistan Military To End Reliance on American GPS Navigation System

[Mig hunter]

Pakistan Military decides to end reliance on American GPS system, shifting to China's Beidou
5 Apr, 2019

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ISLAMABAD - Pakistani military reliance on the US-owned Global Positioning System (GPS) will be reduced after the use of China’s Beidou satellite navigation system which is projected to achieve global coverage by 2020. This was the crux of background discussions between former military officials and telecom experts.

Beidou is the world’s fourth space-based navigation system, following GPS by the United States, GLONASS by Russia and Galileo by the European Union. According to experts, the satellite-based system plays a vital role in the modern world, especially during wartime.


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According to reports when the Pakistani troops took positions in Kargil in 1999, one of the first things the Indian military sought was GPS data for the region. The space-based navigation system maintained by the US denied it to India.

Chinese’s Beidou has covered nearly 30 countries, including Pakistan, Egypt and Indonesia and will send six third-generation Beidou satellites into medium Earth orbits, three to inclined geosynchronous satellite orbits and two to geostationary orbits in 2019 and 2020.

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A report prepared by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission states that China’s Beidou satellite navigation system is projected to achieve global coverage by 2020, providing position accuracies of under ten meters (one meter or less with regional augmentation) using a network of 35 satellites.

The report further states while the U.S has provided GPS signals to users worldwide since the 1980s, China has sought to field its own satellite navigation system

 

[Haroon Baloch]

Better late than never.

 

[war&peace]

Excellent decision!!!

Better late than never.

It is not late... it is coming on the right time..

 

[YeBeWarned]

 

[Reichsmarschall]

I think it happened couple of years ago
@Khafee

 

[Rank]

India if you have guts to destory Pakistan's military communication thn shoot Chinese Satellite with your supa powa ASA weapon

 

[Imran Khan]

It was expected since long time

 

[Talha Asif]

 

[SQ8]

80 F-16s, 2000 JDAM kits, 5 Erieyes , ships , a thousand radios , GPS kits and so on say otherwise.

It cannot be done

 

[Bratva]

Pakistan using Beidou since several years now

Pakistan benefits from China's Sat-Nav system

By Sabena Siddiqui

May 23, 2017

Currently operational in the coastal city of Karachi in Pakistan, it is the very first time that China has brought its full, highly accurate Beidou system, to a foreign nation. A Long March-3C carrier rocket carrying the 23rd satellite in the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) lifts off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 12, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua] A Long March-3C carrier rocket carrying the 23rd satellite in the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) lifts off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 12, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua] The system was initially launched after discussion with Pakistan's Strategic Planning Division for military applications and with Pakistan's national space agency, Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission for civilian use under an agreement in 2013. During the initial phase, the first ground based augmentation system is to be installed in Karachi. Providing a safer and more reliable alternate to the American GPS, the new navigation system will offer better precision and accuracy as more satellites and reference stations are gradually launched. According to the agreement,

China provided the Beidou-equipped infrastructure for government and military use at subsidized costs which included the building of differential ground stations that increase the system's accuracy on the ground. Once the second stage is completed, the whole area of Pakistan will be covered. Based in Beijing, the UniStrong Science and Technology Co, navigation satellite system, positioning and timing service provider, has five base stations and a processing center in Karachi since May 21, 2014. Zhang Ruifeng, head of the Unistrong's publicity department, gave details that the network installed in Karachi is the full Beidou system with a 2-centimetre accuracy rate. This can be extended up to five millimetres after post-processing and has hitherto been unavailable outside China. The arrangement transpired as a result of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's trip to Pakistan in May 2013, where both countries enhanced their strategic cooperation in inter-connectivity, maritime cooperation, aerospace and aviation. Pakistan is the first country in the world to sign an official cooperation agreement on BDS, especially in the fields of aerospace and aviation. Experiencing difficulty at first in finding a suitable site for the navigation system, Wang Yun, manager of UniStrong's product department and leader of the construction team in Karachi, related how she and her team walked around barren hills for days, “because in this arid area, there was scarcely any Internet or communication services, and there were no compatible devices for BDS, we had to keep walking to try and find a proper site." After the selection of the location, the high precision network took some months to complete and now it enhances the efficacy of basic geographic surveying, land management and port dispatching at a lower cost.

 

[khanmubashir]

80 F-16s, 2000 JDAM kits, 5 Erieyes , ships , a thousand radios , GPS kits and so on say otherwise.

It cannot be done

We have 5 or 3 erieyes ???
We can't use Chinese navigation for.western equipment but can for our own jf17 alkhalid alzarar tanks and Black ops for which we don't want USA to know our position

 

[SQ8]

We have 5 or 3 erieyes ???
We can't use Chinese navigation for.western equipment but can for our own jf17 alkhalid alzarar tanks and Black ops for which we don't want USA to know our position

5

 

[RealNapster]

Why don’t we go for our own Regional satelite nav system ? It cost India less then 300 Million dollars. 60 billion Pkr is not a waste for such project. A system of this capcity will give us atleast 1000 km coverage from our borders which is sufficient and reliable. We can built ground stations in Sri lanka, Oman, china to increase its accuracy.

 

[Fledgingwings]

The Pak US military window is closing forever.

 

[xyxmt]

India if you have guts to destory Pakistan's military communication thn shoot Chinese Satellite with your supa powa ASA weapon

lucky for GSP that Pakistan is switching away from it or India would have destroyed it