Gun-Tracking Chips Using GPS in CHina

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  • MackM

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    Jan 20, 2018
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    My guess is we'll see US politicians begin clamoring for this tracking capability soon, first for "assault rifles" then for all guns. Stay alert!

    As reported in a US defense newsletter last week:
    Gun-Tracking Chip Created by China Tech Firm to Keep Nation’s Weapons Under Surveillance
    By: Liu Zhen
    South China Morning Post
    22 June 2019
    [Note: BeiDou is the Chinese version of GPS)

    China has developed a satellite positioning chip to pinpoint the location of firearms and trigger an alert when guns are taken out of designated areas, according to a Chinese hi-tech firm. Beijing Bailineng Technology, the developer of the technology said in Beijing that the chips used China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System to send real-time location data back to a control centre.

    Authorized handlers of the weapons would also be issued with BeiDou watches to send alerts if they are separated from their firearm, with the aim of stopping the weapons falling into the hands of criminals.

    “At the moment the accuracy of positioning is about 3 metres,” Ge Chunsheng, a company spokesman, said at a defense equipment fair which ended on Thursday. “The chips are built in inside, can’t be seen from the outside and very difficult to remove ... without damaging the gun.”

    Ge said the chips were too big for pistols at the moment and could only be fitted in bigger weapons. But the system was already in use in various People’s Liberation Army units in Beijing and Nanjing, he said.

    The announcement comes a decade after serial killer Zhou Kehua murdered a PLA soldier and stole his automatic rifle before going on a bank-robbing spree that left 11 people dead in various provinces. Zhou was China’s most wanted fugitive until he was shot dead by police in 2012.

    China has strict gun control regulations banning civilians from owning firearms. Only the military, police and some specific personnel such as armed transport crews can legally possess firearms.

    Previous gun-tracking systems relied on the US-owned and operated Global Positioning System (GPS). But China hopes the BeiDou system, set to be completed in 2020, will be able to replace GPS in China and compete with it globally. BeiDou was developed for military use but also has civilian applications. It began to cover parts of China in 2000, and launched a basic global service in December 2018.

    The Chinese government has ordered all of its buses, heavy trucks and fishing boats to install BeiDou technology for real-time monitoring and tracking. As of 2017, 22 million vehicles and 50,000 vessels had been equipped with BeiDou terminals.
     

    Alan3413

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    Mar 4, 2013
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    We should encourage them to keep doing this. It'll help us pinpoint every single member of the PLA in the battlefield.
     

    lazarus

    Ultimate Member
    Jun 23, 2015
    13,678
    We should encourage them to keep doing this. It'll help us pinpoint every single member of the PLA in the battlefield.

    That was my thought also.

    This seems like a wet dream for centralized control of the populace knowing where every gun and every vehicle is.

    Also seems like a really bad idea for opsec on a tactical and possibly strategic level.
     

    niftyvt

    Ultimate Member
    Aug 21, 2010
    1,891
    Virginia
    Not surprising. China basically tracks (or at least tries to) all of its citizens. They have very good facial recognition tech and its being set up eveywhere. For example there are arrays of cameras every few miles on the larger roadways that take pictures of every vehicle and occupants that pass by. Also, want a loan? Go into the loan institution, stand in front of a camera, and boom you are instantly approved or denied without needing to do anything.
     

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