“In fact, the system is reportedly simple enough that it doesn’t utilize any AI.”
Advanced Navigation and missile maker MBDA want aircraft to find themselves by matching a downward camera’s view against a terrain database built from NASA, NOAA and Google Earth imagery. The pitch is jamming, which tells you who the first customer is. It fails over lakes, thick cloud and long stretches of ocean, so the old inertial system still carries the gaps. A GPS replacement that needs clear skies is a backup, not a replacement.