The US reconnaissance aircraft uses Beidou star as a navigation spare system

(Beijing Comprehensive News) The U.S. Air Force regards the Beidou system developed by China as a backup system for the US military U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Military experts point out that even so, China may not be able to identify or track the Beidou chip used by American pilots.

The Hong Kong South China Morning Post reported on the 8th that James Holmes, commander of the Air Force Air Force Command, revealed that the chip that allows them to connect the Beidou satellite navigation system in the Watch worn by the U-2 Dragon Dragon Scout pilot.

U-2 first uses the global positioning system (GPS) developed by the United States itself, but the U-2 pilot's watch can also access the Beidou system, the Glonass system in Russia, and the Galileo system in Europe.Holms said: If someone interferes with GPS, my pilots still have backup.

Beijing military expert Zhou Chenming pointed out that Beidou is an open system, and its positioning is a commercial global positioning service provider. Therefore, it is easy to install the Beidou system into the receiver chip into the watch and connect to the system.

Different from the GPS system operated by the US Air Force, the Beidou system does not control satellite signals from technically.In contrast, the US Air Force sometimes restricts services to GPS commercial customers.

Zhou Chenming believes that Beijing is unlikely to identify or track the chip in the pilot's watch.

If you want to track it in real time, you need to install a special forwarder, such as the forwarder used by the Automatic Identification System, which will not appear in a simple chip.

The Beidou system is independently developed and constructed by China, mainly to replace the GPS used by the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

The first generation of Beidou system has been used since 2000, providing regional positioning services. In 2015, the third -generation Beidou system (Beidou III) began in 2015 to conduct global satellite networking.According to the plan, the Beidou system covered the Belt and Road countries in 2018, and completed the construction of global positioning services in 2020. In 2035, it was completed in a comprehensive positioning, navigation, and time system with Beidou as its core.