The electronic warfare in Ukraine shows how important. Is to develop GPS-independent homing systems.

The ground-launched small-diameter bomb, GLSDB, is a good weapon on paper. But its Achilles heel is the GPS homing system. That system is quite easy to jam if the enemy knows the frequencies that the GPS uses. I think. That civilian GPS was in weapons delivered to Ukraine. 

In the war scene, one of the GPS systems.  In enemy hands, GPS can cause catastrophe. Because that gives those systems radio frequencies to enemy ECM systems. Another thing. What can cause failure is this. Maybe Ukrainian troops tried to shoot them outside the allowed area. That is the Ukrainian territory. 

And the safety system destroyed those weapons. But the ability to jam the satellite transmissions is the thing. That should be noticed. The GLSDB types of weapons require new and GPS-independent navigation systems. 

The combination of the gyroscope and optical AI-based seekers can make that system GPS-independent. In real life, a missile must know the shooting point. And then it must know the direction where it must fly. After that, the missile must recognize the target. 

The AI can make that kind of weapon a new way to survive and travel through the air defense. The AI that can recognize missiles that shoot against the incoming missile can make the missile wobble. That decreases the AA missile's ability to point the missile. Weapon research is the race between weapons and counter-weapons. In the Gulf War in the year 2003, the GPS-guided bombs were the ultimate tools. But the thing that weapon researchers should predict is that.

After the Gulf War information about that bomb was public. Russians knew the GPS navigation system's role in the battlefield. And its ability to aim bombs.

And they had 20 years to develop a counter weapon against the GPS-guided bomb. And after the Gulf War, everybody knew that weapon. But for some reason, there was no navigation system. That could replace the GPS and other satellite navigation systems if they are under jamming. For some reason, the developers didn't realize that the missiles and bombs that used only the GPS were vulnerable. They should predict that the GPS is quite easy to lock if the enemy knows its frequencies. 

And when we think about things like Iranian drones or slow cruise missiles that attack against Ukrainian targets we must realize that Ukrainians are lucky. Those slow drones are easy to pick if they are located. 

The AI that recognizes the target and then makes the missile make the evasion movements can make those slow things more deadly. In the worst case, the AI is the thing that allows the drones to communicate with each other. That means that when one drone sees the AA station it attacks against it.  The drone swarms act as an entirety. The fact is that the AI algorithms and the new electronics can make the old, large-size missiles deadly tools. 

It's lucky. That Russians didn't change cluster warheads to their large AA missiles. Those things can be more deadly than the warheads that they had when those missiles shot against Ukrainian positions. 

https://www.eurasiantimes.com/atacms-delayed-but-glsdb-is-headed-to-ukraine/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Launched_Small_Diameter_Bomb