Starlink Satellites Fought Off a Russian Attack Faster...
Apr 24, 2022 18:19:51 GMT -5
Post by Shoshanna on Apr 24, 2022 18:19:51 GMT -5
Top Pentagon Official Admits Elon Musk's Starlink Satellites Fought Off a Russian Attack Faster Than The US Military Could Have
By Jack Davis
April 22, 2022 at 6:02am
In the battle of Musk vs. Moscow, want to guess who won?
On Wednesday, a Pentagon official outlined that a Russian jamming attack in Ukraine was foiled by Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet constellation and that the job was handled better than the military could have done, according to Business Insider.
Dave Tremper, director of electronic warfare in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, said Starlink’s response speed was something the Pentagon can only envy.
Starlink was deployed by the thousands of terminals to help Ukraine after Mykhailo Fedorov, the country’s vice prime minister, went public on Twitter with a request for help from Musk.
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Musk said on March 25 that Starlink had “resisted all hacking and jamming attempts.”
Tremper said that a day after Russia began its jamming attack, “Starlink had slung a line of code and fixed it.”
The attack “was not effective anymore,” he said.
“From an EW technologist perspective, that is fantastic,” Tremper said, using the acronym for electronic warfare. “That paradigm and how they did that is kind of eye-watering to me.”
“The way that Starlink was able to upgrade when a threat showed up, we need to be able to have that ability,” he said, according to Breaking Defense. “We have to be able to change our electromagnetic posture, to be able to change very dynamically what we’re trying to do without losing capability along the way.”
Tremper said the incident shows the need for changes and the Defense Department has a “significant timeline to make those types of corrections.”
“There’s a really interesting case study to look at the agility that Starlink had in their ability to address that problem,” he said.
The Pentagon official said he expected Russia would have “a much stronger EW presence.”
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By Jack Davis
April 22, 2022 at 6:02am
In the battle of Musk vs. Moscow, want to guess who won?
On Wednesday, a Pentagon official outlined that a Russian jamming attack in Ukraine was foiled by Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet constellation and that the job was handled better than the military could have done, according to Business Insider.
Dave Tremper, director of electronic warfare in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, said Starlink’s response speed was something the Pentagon can only envy.
Starlink was deployed by the thousands of terminals to help Ukraine after Mykhailo Fedorov, the country’s vice prime minister, went public on Twitter with a request for help from Musk.
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Musk said on March 25 that Starlink had “resisted all hacking and jamming attempts.”
Tremper said that a day after Russia began its jamming attack, “Starlink had slung a line of code and fixed it.”
The attack “was not effective anymore,” he said.
“From an EW technologist perspective, that is fantastic,” Tremper said, using the acronym for electronic warfare. “That paradigm and how they did that is kind of eye-watering to me.”
“The way that Starlink was able to upgrade when a threat showed up, we need to be able to have that ability,” he said, according to Breaking Defense. “We have to be able to change our electromagnetic posture, to be able to change very dynamically what we’re trying to do without losing capability along the way.”
Tremper said the incident shows the need for changes and the Defense Department has a “significant timeline to make those types of corrections.”
“There’s a really interesting case study to look at the agility that Starlink had in their ability to address that problem,” he said.
The Pentagon official said he expected Russia would have “a much stronger EW presence.”
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