In message <[email protected]>, David writes:

>having to be re addressed. I suspect Loran will not get a big revival, 
>the important development since the '80s is probably cheap MEMS inertial 
>measurement sensors [...]

They're fine for playing with robots and steering rockets, but they're
absolutely useless for navigating planes, cars and automobiles, as they
drift tens of degrees per hour.

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