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Ukrainian surface drones had Starlink comms disabled on direct Musk's orders (web.archive.org)
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of course he was afraid of russian nuukes. this only prompted Ukrainian engineers to bypass use of starlink entirely and current sea drones, like the one used in second Kerch bridge strike, or these used against SIG tanker and Olenegorsky Gornyak landing ship use domestic technology only

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[-] jonhendry@iosdev.space 3 points 1 year ago

@gerikson

Even if it doesn't rapidly degenerate into a full-blown Kessler Event, I'd have to think there'd be enough going on there to increase uncertainty and risk.

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