BAE Develops Autonomous Nav-Guidance For Australia

Credit: Bae Systems
It might be just a dark rock that no one has ever noticed, let alone put on a map. But it can tell a passing aircraft where it is. How? Because the aircraft has worked out its position relative to the rock and the rock's position relative to a patch of bright green grass that it spotted previously...

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