BEIJING (PTI): China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) on Friday concluded a two-day drill for testing the country's independently developed global satellite navigation system 'Beidou' in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The military used the Beidou Navigation Satellite System for precise positioning and navigating, real-time location reporting and data transmission over long distances, PLA General Staff Headquarters said.
Beidou, which is stated to be rival to US GPS, has allowed the armies to be more precise in command, weapon firing and logistics and that the technology has "been integrated into the PLA's modern command system and weapon platform, official media quoted the PLA press release as saying.
Beidou is the Chinese equivalent of the United States' NAVSTAR Global Positioning System and Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System.
Currently, Beidou has 20 satellites.
Chinese military tests its own GPS 'Beidou'
Article Posted on : - Feb 09, 2015
Other Related News
Come up with ideas, products that become necessity of armed forces: Defence Minister
Defence Minster Rajnath Singh has exhorted the defence industry stakeholders and innovators to come up with new ideas and translate them into products, so that the Armed Forces would feel that they were incomplete without these equipment.
The Indian Air Force, in its flight trials evaluation report submitted before the Defence Ministry l..
view articleAn insight into the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft competition...
view articleSky enthusiasts can now spot the International Space Station (ISS) commanded by Indian-American astr..
view article