from Sputnik News
The
Russian military possesses perhaps the most comprehensive, multilayered
and multi-domain electronic warfare capabilities in the world, using an
array of short, medium, long and ultra-long range systems to effect
throughout the course of the proxy war with NATO in Ukraine.
The
Russian military continues to ramp up its ability to disrupt the
Starlink internet capabilities Ukraine’s troops use to coordinate their
forces, collect intel and launch drone attacks on Russian frontline
positions, causing mass “outages” in the Kharkov area of the front and
playing a role in the rapid pace of Russia’s recent advances.
That’s according to
Ukrainian officials, soldiers and electronic warfare specialists
queried by the New York Times to find out why Russia’s EW operations had
slowed frontline troops’ ability to communicate using Starlink internet
to a crawl, forcing troops to resort to simple text messages.
NYT
warned that if Russia’s massed efforts to disrupt Starlink “continue to
succeed, it could mark a tactical shift in the conflict, highlighting
Ukraine’s vulnerability and dependence on the service provided by Mr.
Musk’s company,” while raising “broader questions about Starlink’s
reliability against a technically sophisticated adversary.”...
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