Learn how US aircraft carriers navigate when aircraft radar and aircraft GPS fail, using celestial navigation, dead reckoning, and resilient backup systems in contested warzones. Pixabay, ...

Aircraft carriers are massive and incredibly complex pieces of machinery with hundreds of thousands of moving parts that all work in unison to get moving. For navigation, GPS and radar systems are ...

Learning how to utilise GPS for hiking navigation might be a valuable addition to your outdoor arsenal. While no single navigational tool is a ‘magic bullet’ for navigating in the outdoors (you should ...

Shortly after starting my Appalachian Trail thru-hike in 2002, I taught myself dead-reckoning navigation using my watch and data sheet. With surprising accuracy, I could monitor my hiking pace, ...

In September 2025, a Widerøe Airlines flight was trying to land in Vardø, Norway, which sits in the country’s far eastern arm, some 40 miles from the Russian coast. The cloud deck was low, and so was ...

Most of us never reach for a map while driving anymore, nor are we printing directions before a family trip. We navigate with our phones, guided by the pinpoint accuracy of GPS. It gets us to vacation ...

I’ve been navigating with compass and map since I was a boy, and I still find my way around in that Neanderthal way--instead of using my GPS-enabled smartphone--for one simple reason: I enjoy it.