The U.S. was NOT “Superiour” in anyway in this catagorey in KOSAVO, the only hit 13 of Serbia’s 500+ Tanks, Serbian Military used modified Microwave Ovens to operate with thier door’s open to interfear with NATO’s GPS guides on their (NATOS’s) Bombs, which caused Doezens of them to not hit thier targets, so much for yoye “Supieriour Hardwar”.

The fact that US destroyied “only 13 of 500 tanks” is highly debatable. However, even if this was true, it has nothing to do with GPS-guided weapond accuracy; it is the vegetation of this Balkan region that allowed camunflage, so the targets were hard to locate . But this would have apply for any type of weapon used in this region.

OTOH, in Afganistan, GPS weapon (JDAM) proved deadly, since the arrid terain in the region allow an easy target location. Also in Kosovo, if the Serbs would not have give up this province and asked for peace, ground war would have begun. In this case the Serbian tanks and APCs would have to move instead to stay concealed. What would have been the result? Look how USAF decimated the Iraqi Republican Guard in 2003.

The GPS guided is what you need today if you really want to have “precission” weapons. Laser-guided, TV guided are no longer the most modern guidance-US fielded them in the late ’60 in Vietnam. Nowadays you must have GPS weapons.

If this would not be true, why do you think that other powers aside the US would invest $ billions in GPS-like satelites systems (Russia’s GLONASS, EU Galileo, or the Chinese GPS embrion that Sekant mentioned) or in GPS weapons: France AASM, UK-France Storm Shadow, German-Swedish Taurus, Israeli Spike, Russian KAB-S?

A few years ago, General John Jumper, the former USAF Chief of Staff was asked what was the most valuable technology US developped for military pourposes in the last half-century. He reply without hesitation GPS. Not stealth, not cruise missile, not AESA radars, not active radar missile (AMRAAM), but GPS! This guy must knew what he was talking about: he flew >4500 hours on 10 different types of fighters planes, including F 4, F 15, F 16; among these, >1500 were combat hours in Vietnam. I believe that he knows better than you and me-just aviation fans 😉