[time-nuts] Dumb Cs beam question: mechanical shock sensitivity?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <011201c6b790$549607d0$7e01000a at fakie>, "Christopher Hoover" writes:

>I imagine having a very good clock in a submarine would be useful for
>all sorts of things.

It's mostly used for the crypto comms and the dead reckoning (inertial)
navigation.

Just like all the ice-thinning data from the polar region, I can't
help wondering how much relativity data the USN might have in their
classified files.

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