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Originally Posted by FuriousEagle
(ok i know about old methods like stars bla bla bla, but i guess that it wasn't used anymore)
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Those methods were indeed used, right up until recently. It wasn't until 1997 that the US Navy stopped teaching celestial navigation. In today's modern world of Global Positioning Satellites the sextant is redundant, but seventy years ago it was all there was. Yes, you could use Radio Direction Finding, but that depended on having two different stations within range, and knowing exactly where those stations were, something rarely available in the middle of the ocean. Even in the 1950s large aircraft had glass domes on top specifically for the navigator to use a sextant for sun and star sightings.
During World War II those "stars bla bla bla" were all they had, and the best method of navigation known until computers came along.