content: Back to old Tech for the US Military Starting next year the US will begin (once again) to install and man LORAN stations. The last LORAN station was declared obsolete and shut down in 2010.  It now appears that this may have been a little hasty. It has now become apparent that some very nasty players on the international scene are using spoofed GPS signals to lure American ships into (or onto) dangerous waters to create damage to vessels or create international incidents.  The jamming and spoofing of GPS is also responsible for some spectacular failures of our most sophisticated weapons systems, (inaccuracy of weapons and the capture by Iran of one of our Predator Drones. It has also become apparent that with the advance of anti-satellite weapons that the GPS system can be neutralized (Destroyed) before any hostilities begin.  The new e-LORAN will use ground based systems that will yield about the same location accuracy as GPS but with out Altitude information.  The e-LORAN will use the Low frequency band with frequency hopping to make the service more secure and have the transmitting power about 1 and a half MILLION watts greater than current GPS.  While no money has been appropriated yet appropriations are in bills winding their way through congress.  I might add all this mania about driver-less cars and trucks my take a big hit if some prankster cranks up a home built GPS spoof-er in a major city and cause all these driver-less cars and truck to leave the road and run over Grandma walking with little Jonney down to the ice-cream shop.