• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Starlink is the weak link here. The US military have access to their own satellite network but obviously won’t share that with Ukraine, hence the relative ease of jamming in this case. Russian tech being able to jam civilian satellites isn’t noteworthy.

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      7 months ago

      Please do provide sources that Starklink is used for targeting weapons. I’d love to see those. Last I saw, it’s widely admitted now that western “contractors” are responsible for operating western guided weapons, meaning that they are using US satellite network. Also, not sure why you’d think that if Starlink can be jammed, then US military satellites wouldn’t be jammed the same way.

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        7 months ago

        Please do provide sources that Starklink is used for targeting weapons.

        Are you serious? Did you not read the article you yourself posted, or just saw the “Murica bad” headline and rolled with it?

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          7 months ago

          If you work on your reading comprehension, you’ll see that nowhere does it say that Starlink is used for targeting. It’s used for communication and that’s being disrupted along with targeting systems which have fuck all to do with Starlink.

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    Are there missiles that aren’t susceptible to jamming? I was expecting ballistic missiles to be used for this purpose. To reduce heat signature tracking I thought that they’d throw off the projectile system after acquiring height and direction. But I don’t know if they can be picked up by some form of active scan.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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      7 months ago

      I imagine that any missile that has to hit a target precisely over a long distance needs to be able to do course corrections to account for stuff like air drag and turbulence.

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    7 months ago

    OP is a raging tankie and pro-Russian propagandist, but I’ll bite. Starlink is the weak link here. The US military have access to their own satellite network but obviously won’t share that with Ukraine, hence the relative ease of jamming in this case.