Intro to GPS Apps
Military Intelligence & Target Location

Contents

• General
• Open Skies

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General

Open Skies

The Open Skies Treaty was first proposed by President Dwight Eisenhower to Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev at the Geneva Conference of 1955. The Soviets rejected the concept and it lay dormant for a generation. In May 1989, the U.S. reintroduced the idea of Open Skies as an instrument of confidence building. The treaty calls for the open verification of military assets by aerial reconnaisance aircraft. The OC-135B Open Skies aircraft was designed to support this treaty. The aircraft, a version of the Boeing 707, relies totally on it's GPS aided inertial navigation system, using no ground references at all.