• pntha@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    “found a way” and definitely not aided by the fascist company owner, who has definitely never ever taken money from the aggressors that “found a way” to jam his Satellites

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      Jamming is easy though.

      Just get a big transmitter, and transmit on the same frequency. If you overpower the signal on the reciever end enough that they can’t make out a signal anymore, you’ve succesfully jammed it. You can fight that in a few ways, with a directional antenna, better signal processing to drown out the noise, better signal redudancy to make the processing easier, etc etc. In the end, it’s just basics physics.

      Of course, the downside of having a really big long range transmitter (like a jammer or rada) is that it’s super easy to shoot a missile at it.

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      You think a relative technological breakthrough is less likely than the guy who is providing Ukraine with Starlink for free is at the same time telling the Russian how to jam it? So he would make sooner or later public a vulnerability in his own technology (which he sells)? Doesn’t male any sense. It’s easy and satisfying to think that all evil people plan together evil things all the time, but more often than not the answer is simpler than a cospiracy theory based on feelings.

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        Musk had to have his arm twisted to provide Starlink to Ukraine, and actually tried to shut down their use in the past. Further, jamming satellites is not a mysterious breakthrough vulnerability, its tech thats older than most of the people here.

            • TheOctonaut@piefed.zip
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              I’ve never tried, our local dairy industry tends not to adulterate its products, and chocolate milk tends to be made instead with cheap shelf-stable UHT rubbish.

              Are you avoiding my question?

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                  That’s a yes then. Would you like if I explained the relevance of the question, perhaps with a comparative example that doesn’t trigger your automated defense of your, uh, anti-imperialist freedom fighters? Do you think he would be calling the Irish incapable of advanced technology if he noticed that our airforce consists of like 2 Pilatus PC-9s?