This is why the West is really afraid of Iran and Russia. See Uzbekistan Back on the Silk Road and Putin in Astrakhan.
At 8 minutes 6 secs you get an insight into the economic system on which the greatest empire on earth was built. And it is assumed by most that the creators of this device were Greeks, but ....
See Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry.
For more technical detail, see
So the argument about where the Global Hawk actually was when it was shot down, might reduce to the level of arithmetic precision in Iranian air-defence versus American drone navigation systems.
Trouble is, I am not sure there is anyone in the Pentagon anymore who knows anything about this sort of thing. But go on, surprise me. Maybe ask General Votel? This post has a sound track:
At 8 minutes 6 secs you get an insight into the economic system on which the greatest empire on earth was built. And it is assumed by most that the creators of this device were Greeks, but ....
See Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry.
For more technical detail, see
So the argument about where the Global Hawk actually was when it was shot down, might reduce to the level of arithmetic precision in Iranian air-defence versus American drone navigation systems.
Trouble is, I am not sure there is anyone in the Pentagon anymore who knows anything about this sort of thing. But go on, surprise me. Maybe ask General Votel? This post has a sound track:
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