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Exclusive: US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources | Reuters
"During the meeting, #Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." #Musk
NFL. Ukraine military is really smart. It will be a blow to lose Starlink, but they have certainly established contingency plans for this eventuality.
@mastodonmigration it'd be a boon for them if an "ally" wasn't making it harder for them. I pray for their inventiveness to go through without that tech (and for Europe to fully support Ukraine, that'd help too).
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@kkarhan@jt_rebelo @mastodonmigration @GottaLaff #Ukraine has higher degree of #FTTH than the #USA...
- Loosing #Starlink is like downgrading an Audi A4 from 3.2 FSI quattro to 1.8 FWD: It's still a 5-seater limo!
@kkarhan hope so. They don't deserve to be left to unsupported.
@mastodonmigration @GottaLaff
@kkarhan@infosec.space@jt_rebelo @mastodonmigration @GottaLaff I'd call #Ukraine "criminally incompetent" if they didn't already leverage domestic #Fiber & #GSM networks as well as procuring entire transponders for exclusive use.
I couldn't confirm X-Band use with either #XTAR or #BwSATCOM-2 simply because I have neither teleport access nor matching LNBs/BUCs ready, but existing press releases by @Bundesregierung & @AuswaertigesAmt hint that Ukraine has been upgraded to #NATO #Link22 capabilities.
Existing #SIGINT & purchases show huge amounts of COTS #KuBand & #KaBand and even #Cband-Equipment being used since 2022, which use higher-ping #GSO|s but are easier to decoy and protect against #ElectronicWarfare and #Sabotage (just by shoving the dish into a partially buried sewage pipe, making it look like a ghettohacked Copy of #BARS, the Soviet-Era #Troposcatter CnC Radio...
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114048983272826079
@kkarhan@jt_rebelo @mastodonmigration @GottaLaff
If you look at some footage from Ukraine, you can often see some Commercial Dishes with hastily painted urban camo inside windowless buildings so they ain't spotted from overheas flying #drones and #ElectronicWarfare units...
- So if you wounder where all the disused two-way & one-way #SatelliteInternet terminals and LNBs/BUCs from eBay went: They are serving in #Ukraine!