The war between Russia and Ukraine has expanded to another front: the technological one. Russia, according to information, is trying to interfere with satellite communications starlink, which Ukraine uses for its military operations. Moscow also did it clandestinely but kyiv managed to stop it.
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According to The New York Times, Ukrainian troops are facing outages and slowness in electronic systems. Service Elon Muskis fundamental in Ukrainian operations.
In Fedorov’s words, Putin’s people are testing “different mechanisms to alter the quality of Starlink connections” due to the importance of this system among Ukrainian units. On the other hand, it should be noted that although the silence within the Kremlin regarding this is broad, some officials have framed Starlink as an objective to be countered, El Español publishes.
Soldiers depend directly on the service to guide Internet-connected drones, especially those dedicated to espionage and intelligence. Starlink is also used to direct offensive drones, explains El Español.
An example of this situation is related by a drone pilot, who explains that one of these slowdowns put him in a very compromising situation. The pilot’s team set about launching drones from a position where they were out of supplies. The problem became so serious that soldiers had to resort to instant messaging to communicate.
The Spanish media reports that neither Fedorov nor Ukraine They have specified what type of technology Russian soldiers would be using to hinder the operability of Starlink. There is speculation with several theories; it talks about how Russia would be launching high-power radio frequencies via ground vehicles to overload the connection terminals.
It is also believed that Russia would be using communications jammers or, failing that, electronic weapons mounted on drones to hinder Starlink’s GPS signals.
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It should be remembered that this war is totally overshadowed by the excessive use of drones, which are usually used with this type of inhibitory weapons. Some of them are even used to attack other drones and similar aerial systems, publishes the El Español site.
ANA MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ BRAZÓN – INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL –
Text taken from the El Español website
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