Russia has found way to jam Starlink and take down Ukraine’s drones

a month ago by Lemmynated to c/world

Russia has deployed 10 electronic warfare systems to jam Ukrainian drone control via Starlink. Ukraine has destroyed two.
pntha 38 points a month ago

“found a way” and definitely not aided by the fascist company owner, who has definitely never ever taken money from the aggressors that “found a way” to jam his Satellites

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Tar_alcaran 23 points a month ago

Jamming is easy though.

Just get a big transmitter, and transmit on the same frequency. If you overpower the signal on the reciever end enough that they can't make out a signal anymore, you've succesfully jammed it. You can fight that in a few ways, with a directional antenna, better signal processing to drown out the noise, better signal redudancy to make the processing easier, etc etc. In the end, it's just basics physics.

Of course, the downside of having a really big long range transmitter (like a jammer or rada) is that it's super easy to shoot a missile at it.

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LeoDalPozzo 6 points a month ago

You think a relative technological breakthrough is less likely than the guy who is providing Ukraine with Starlink for free is at the same time telling the Russian how to jam it? So he would make sooner or later public a vulnerability in his own technology (which he sells)? Doesn't male any sense. It's easy and satisfying to think that all evil people plan together evil things all the time, but more often than not the answer is simpler than a cospiracy theory based on feelings.

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jrs100000 15 points a month ago

Musk had to have his arm twisted to provide Starlink to Ukraine, and actually tried to shut down their use in the past. Further, jamming satellites is not a mysterious breakthrough vulnerability, its tech thats older than most of the people here.

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Nonconfrontational 1 point a month ago

Seems kind of bigoted to think the Russians are incapable of advanced tech warfare imo

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TheOctonaut 4 points a month ago

Do you equate a nation's military with its majority ethnicity?

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Nonconfrontational 1 point a month ago

Do you like chocolate milk on your cereal?

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Phantaloons 11 points a month ago

Russian commanders in shock that you can target something that doesn't have one or more human lives inside of it.

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finallymadeanaccount 6 points a month ago

I mean, I applaud them jamming Starlink, because it'll piss off Musk, but I'm barracking for Ukraine in the long run.

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CannonFodder 5 points a month ago

The problem for Russia is that such jammers light up like a beacon. An autonomous drone can easily home in on them and destroy them.

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Prove_your_argument 5 points a month ago

Sounds like a real easy system to counter. Since these jammers broadcast on a frequency you just need a sensor that detects that frequency for a missile to home in on and a few dummy drones to trigger the use of the jammers.

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TIEPilot 1 point a month ago

I can fix this. It will take some effort and I'm good at.

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