22.04.2022, 13:14
Starlink Broke Through the «Jammers» of the Russian Army
Source: ИА «Ореанда-Новости»
OREANDA-NEWS The US Department of Defense announced the «stunning» success of SpaceX in delivering satellite Internet to Ukraine, despite the actions of Russian electronic warfare systems. It is reported that in March of this year, a company owned by Elon Musk stopped a Russian attack using electromagnetic weapons.
A Pentagon spokesman said that after Russia deployed troops to the territory of Crimea in 2014, the Russian military widely used electronic warfare in the Ukrainian Donbas — often with great success, using electromagnetic signals to detect the positions of Ukrainian forces and disable such equipment as drones. However, the current conflict may expose the limits of Russia's capabilities in the field of electronic warfare.
Dave Trimper, director of the Electronic warfare department in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, pointed to SpaceX's ability to timely resist Russia's attempts to jam the Starlink satellite broadband service, which provided Ukraine's Internet connection. «The next day [after the Russian jamming attempts were reported], Starlink added a line of code and corrected it... And suddenly this [Russian jamming attack] stopped being effective. From the point of view of an electronic warfare technologist, it's fantastic... and the way they did it amazed me», the expert said.
The US military should take a page from SpaceX's book in the fight against electromagnetic warfare, as Elon Musk's aerospace company has won «stunning» victories over Russian hackers in Ukraine, according to the US military. At the moment, 5,000 Starlink terminals are operating on the territory of Ukraine, 3,667 of which were donated by SpaceX, and 1,333 of them were purchased by the US Agency for International Development.
Ukrainian journalists report that the Internet from Elon Musk is very helpful to residents of the country in gaining access to the Internet in remote villages. So, Kristina Berdynskikh said that residents of one of the settlements in the Kiev region for the first time were able to use their mobile phones to contact relatives about whom there had been no news for a long time due to military operations.
A Pentagon spokesman said that after Russia deployed troops to the territory of Crimea in 2014, the Russian military widely used electronic warfare in the Ukrainian Donbas — often with great success, using electromagnetic signals to detect the positions of Ukrainian forces and disable such equipment as drones. However, the current conflict may expose the limits of Russia's capabilities in the field of electronic warfare.
Dave Trimper, director of the Electronic warfare department in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, pointed to SpaceX's ability to timely resist Russia's attempts to jam the Starlink satellite broadband service, which provided Ukraine's Internet connection. «The next day [after the Russian jamming attempts were reported], Starlink added a line of code and corrected it... And suddenly this [Russian jamming attack] stopped being effective. From the point of view of an electronic warfare technologist, it's fantastic... and the way they did it amazed me», the expert said.
The US military should take a page from SpaceX's book in the fight against electromagnetic warfare, as Elon Musk's aerospace company has won «stunning» victories over Russian hackers in Ukraine, according to the US military. At the moment, 5,000 Starlink terminals are operating on the territory of Ukraine, 3,667 of which were donated by SpaceX, and 1,333 of them were purchased by the US Agency for International Development.
Ukrainian journalists report that the Internet from Elon Musk is very helpful to residents of the country in gaining access to the Internet in remote villages. So, Kristina Berdynskikh said that residents of one of the settlements in the Kiev region for the first time were able to use their mobile phones to contact relatives about whom there had been no news for a long time due to military operations.
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