APU soldiers on an armored personnel carrier near Kyiv, Ukraine. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 15Violations in the Starlink satellite Internet threaten to result in significant losses for the Ukrainian army, military experts interviewed by RT said. «This is the most powerful channel for transmitting combat information from fields to headquarters and back, access to databases,» military expert Dmitry Drozdenko said. He added that through Starlink the coordination of troops is carried out, so failures in the system will create problems in all control. Starlink also helps with rocket and artillery strikes. Satellite communications are not integrated into the weapons systems that Ukraine has: the same HIMARS also launch using GPS, but homing warheads do not see the accumulation of equipment, manpower, fortifications and minefields.
Musk claims that Russia is trying to «kill» Starlink in Ukraine «It is Starlink that helps missile launchers and artillery battery commanders to receive objective data from the line of contact in real time and select the most important targets,» retired colonel Yury Knutov, a military expert, explained. he said, Russia can interfere or completely jam the Starlink signal on the ground if GPS fails. «Each satellite is quite primitive in terms of design, they do not have inexpensive and serious protection for communication channels,» he added. that his company can no longer pay for Starlink services in Ukraine. Previously, the media, citing documents, wrote that SpaceX was asking the Pentagon to cover these costs. GPS satelliteTo date, about 20 thousand Starlink terminals have been transferred to Ukraine. Musk said that the related operations cost SpaceX $80 million, and by the end of the year, these costs will exceed $100 million. The Pentagon said it was in talks about Starlink satellite internet in Ukraine. Starlink is a next-generation satellite network designed to provide broadband internet access around the world. SpaceX has launched more than 2,300 satellites into orbit.
