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GCUMstlyHarmlstoday at 9:55 AM2 repliesview on HN

Didn't we just see that wired drones are the current peak over wireless, and Russia is at this moment jamming satellite drone control...


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nradovtoday at 7:05 PM

Russia has attempted to jam Starlink satellites but with very limited success. The problem for Russia is that the constellation is enormous and uses highly directional phased-array radios which are naturally resistant to jamming. They can temporarily jam a few birds over a limited area but don't have the resources to effect sustained denial. We might eventually see them escalate to kinetic strikes on the satellites.

petterroeatoday at 12:11 PM

You are right about drones, but Starlink etc is still used a lot by forward deployments of troops. Afaik it has revolutionised the ability to contact these deployments. But I'm not an army guy