Eeer, what? :D Why would you need low orbit to control drones? o.O You want to somehow attach the starlink terminals to all your drones, and utilize them this way in no time? :D
Why would you have to control a drone through starlink? Are you implying the drone connects to some wifi router nearby, which then is connected through starlink with some base on the other side of the country? Is this ever happening in practice?
As for the naval drones, that's a completely different topic, those are much bigger, slower and less manevourable than the typical flying drones. And they did have starlink installed on them, up until Musk demonstrated this should not be happening (I haven't heard about Ukraine ever doing this again after that failed attack). Either way I don't think quick reflexes and reactions matter that much for the naval drones.
"If you've seen an actual combat video of naval drones, where swarm of naval drones maneuver to overcome ship's defences and hit the ship in the same already damaged spot, trying to sink it, they sure as hell need a lot of reflexes and reaction."
Have you? I didn't know anything like that was available in public at all. And I still doubt a latency of 100 ms is a problem in such fight.
"I have no real information but I think long-range UAV that fly for thousand kilometers to hit oil refineries and such are also controlled by Starlink"
Hmm, I was under impression they aim at stationary targets and hit preprogrammed coordinates, but well, who knows, maybe you are right. Now that I think about it, I do remember rumours of Ukrainians testing starlink like this.
How UA long range drones can use Starlink if it does not work (without hacks) in Russia? AFAIK they use GPS or some other offline guidance (e.g. image recognition).
Amy info on the topic of Ukrainian F16 EW packages not updated any longer by US? For me that is definitely something with pinch of salt - if something that info would not be available through OSINT channels? Clearly Mirage 2000-5 now in hindsight has no US dependence...which is clearly a much more important factor
It is typical for the US to reserve the right to brick its export weapons. Otherwise every asshole in the world with US armaments would have the ability to strike American troops.
If this is true, it amazes me how anyone buys US weapons, still now. But I would have thought it's really not that simple. "Bricking" a device remotely is only possible if the device requires internet connection with the producer server, how could any military buy such product? Of course it's a different story when we are just talking about technical support, parts etc. but that's nothing new and does not mean the whole army is immediately useless.
Well ultimately, the consumer has to pick the arms manufacturer he is not going to war with. If someone is in the US sphere, he buys US weapons. If he is in the Russian sphere, he buys Russian weapons. It should be obvious that American high tech weapons can't be turned on Americans, and Russian high tech weapons can't be turned on Russians.
The crucial policy here is to not piss off both the US and Russia. If the EU manages to do that, it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Thanks Tom and Don, Ukrainian mitigation efforts of the affected means provided by the US should be double time and smart NOW, otherwise the result will snowball.
Waiting for further updates, thanks again gentlemen.
Eeer, what? :D Why would you need low orbit to control drones? o.O You want to somehow attach the starlink terminals to all your drones, and utilize them this way in no time? :D
Why would you have to control a drone through starlink? Are you implying the drone connects to some wifi router nearby, which then is connected through starlink with some base on the other side of the country? Is this ever happening in practice?
As for the naval drones, that's a completely different topic, those are much bigger, slower and less manevourable than the typical flying drones. And they did have starlink installed on them, up until Musk demonstrated this should not be happening (I haven't heard about Ukraine ever doing this again after that failed attack). Either way I don't think quick reflexes and reactions matter that much for the naval drones.
"If you've seen an actual combat video of naval drones, where swarm of naval drones maneuver to overcome ship's defences and hit the ship in the same already damaged spot, trying to sink it, they sure as hell need a lot of reflexes and reaction."
Have you? I didn't know anything like that was available in public at all. And I still doubt a latency of 100 ms is a problem in such fight.
"I have no real information but I think long-range UAV that fly for thousand kilometers to hit oil refineries and such are also controlled by Starlink"
Hmm, I was under impression they aim at stationary targets and hit preprogrammed coordinates, but well, who knows, maybe you are right. Now that I think about it, I do remember rumours of Ukrainians testing starlink like this.
How UA long range drones can use Starlink if it does not work (without hacks) in Russia? AFAIK they use GPS or some other offline guidance (e.g. image recognition).
That they havent been able too block every private account linked to Ukraine is hardly the point here.
Amy info on the topic of Ukrainian F16 EW packages not updated any longer by US? For me that is definitely something with pinch of salt - if something that info would not be available through OSINT channels? Clearly Mirage 2000-5 now in hindsight has no US dependence...which is clearly a much more important factor
That will be covered in the Q&A Part 3.
It is typical for the US to reserve the right to brick its export weapons. Otherwise every asshole in the world with US armaments would have the ability to strike American troops.
If this is true, it amazes me how anyone buys US weapons, still now. But I would have thought it's really not that simple. "Bricking" a device remotely is only possible if the device requires internet connection with the producer server, how could any military buy such product? Of course it's a different story when we are just talking about technical support, parts etc. but that's nothing new and does not mean the whole army is immediately useless.
Well ultimately, the consumer has to pick the arms manufacturer he is not going to war with. If someone is in the US sphere, he buys US weapons. If he is in the Russian sphere, he buys Russian weapons. It should be obvious that American high tech weapons can't be turned on Americans, and Russian high tech weapons can't be turned on Russians.
The crucial policy here is to not piss off both the US and Russia. If the EU manages to do that, it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Thanks Tom and Don, Ukrainian mitigation efforts of the affected means provided by the US should be double time and smart NOW, otherwise the result will snowball.
Waiting for further updates, thanks again gentlemen.
Thank you so very much.
"…but then the US is currently involved in multiple international relations crises…."
That is wrong. The US is currently an international crises.
True, and why would Greenland or Canada want to join this clown show?