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Re:Starlink Now Being Deployed on U.S. Navy Warships by upon_drumhead on Thursday August 22, 2024 @08:00PM (#41325253)
Curious as to the timing given 9 days ago it looks like Russian Navy might be planning to use starlink on their naval drones. Would StarLink eventually be able to control nation state conflicts by disabling connectivity to the side they don't like? They've previously done this to Ukrainian drones.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/08/new-russian-nav...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/musk-stopped-ukraine-atta...

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Re:Starlink Now Being Deployed on U.S. Navy Warships by wongarsu on Thursday August 22, 2024 @08:15PM (#41325316)
That's probably why the US Navy uses a network agnostic architecture that connects to both Starlink and OneWeb, as well as military LEO satellites.

Besides, according to [1] they can so far only use Starlink for unclassified data. Unlike Ukraine and Russia, the US isn't under any real pressure and can take their time to get this right.

1: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/navy/2024/06/navy-project-bri...

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Re:Starlink Now Being Deployed on U.S. Navy Warships by talldayo on Thursday August 22, 2024 @08:07PM (#41325277)
Starlink isn't a reliable primary radio, period. The US ships being equipped with Starlink are doing so alongside their datalink and radio comms, as should any smart implementation. Both Ukraine and Russia are silly to rely on trivially-jammed AESA comms when more resilient military-grade options exist. Either side has access to military satellites for this kinda stuff.
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Re:Starlink Now Being Deployed on U.S. Navy Warships by SanjayMehta on Thursday August 22, 2024 @08:54PM (#41325473)
Interesting speculation based on a render of a square antenna.
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