Re: Fgs
Having our own, more advanced GPS variant isn't such a bad idea for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, there is no guarantee that we would in future still be able to use any of the existing GPS-like systems, not least because there is no reason to suppose that the EU its self will be particularly long-lived as a political entity.
Secondly, US politics seems to be disappearing down a parochial, inward-looking rabbit hole. Trump is of this ilk, if more rational than some US politicians. Should some future terrorist decide to use Galileo to attack the USA in some manner, there is no reason to think that a future US government might not consider Galileo a threat to their national security, and start doing nasty things to the Galileo satellites.
As such, having our own system would be fairly useful, especially as a UK government would be fairly keen to kowtow to any and all US government pressure regarding selectively fuzzing GPS systems...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
