Adrian Covert — You use GPS to help guide you to that obscure restaurant you've never been to. The US Army now uses GPS to guide mortar rounds with seven times more accuracy than previous methods before it.
According to PopSci, the 120mm APMI XM395 rounds can hit within 30 feet of its intended target more than 50% of the time thanks to the GPS module built into its nose:
The APMI XM395 cartridge employs a standard 120-millimeter projectile body, but packed in the nose is a GPS receiver
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