might be too credible

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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    It would be a shame if the Feds started investigating Twitter and Tesla again.

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            if you mean that ZSU uses starlink infrastructure now, then i suspect yes, but they basically subcontract from DoD (?) so they don’t have to deal with Musk’s bullshit that much. i mean no unusual shady shit involved, situation was sorted out by legal means. but also i’m guessing they got burned on this entire situation and for absolutely critical tasks prefer not to use it at all, which is technically feasible especially if you don’t have to care about these pesky frequency allocations

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    I remember an old interview with Elon Musk’s ex, Talulah Riley, where she said that she can’t leave him because left alone he will go “king crazy”. I now understand what she meant.

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      that’s very simple: ██████ ███ ██████ ███████ ██████ ███████████ ████ ████████ ██████ ████████ █████████ ███ █ ███ ███████ ██████████ ████ ████████ █████

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        You are forgetting how they: █████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ ███████ ██████ ███████████ ███ ████████ █████████ ████ ██████ ████ ██ █████

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      barring “rented” “commercial” satellites, i’m guessing lots and lots of repeaters. if they were able to teabag Moskva with TB-2, they can also put repeater there

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          tldr Ukrainian onshore radar got random range buff, TB-2 was sent to investigate

          i read an article that stated that Moskva was detected by an Ukrainian onshore radar. the problem is, Moskva was way out of normal range, and instead of normal propagation, it was visible at all due to tropospheric ducting, a condition that appears only in some specific weather conditions. so, i’m guessing, they sent TB-2 to confirm it was not an artifact, and when they confirmed it’s a big thing like seen on radar, then they sent Neptunes (2). some early reports seemed to indicate that TB-2 was sent to distract AA radar crew while Neptunes close by, but it didn’t seem to be working at all, so it’s nbd at the end of the day

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              Bayraktar doesn’t carry anything big enough that can harm ship like this. Neptune has 150kg warhead and two of them + ammunition fire were enough, TB-2’s entire missile is like 20kg

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      If you ask the US nicely if you can use their satellites to control your drones while blowing up Russians, a big crate with CIA/USAF labels turns up on your doorstep, full of control devices that use nothing but “domestic tech” that use no US satellites or flying control centres whatsoever.

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        In a kinder world, there are also stacks of dough. Anyone remember “Bloom County”? There was a story arc from 1986/1987 when Oliver Wendell Jones and Milo have something similar happen. The kids claim to be developing a weapon for the “Star Wars” program. Giant boxes of untraceable cash start showing up on Milo’s front steps in hours. It goes to their heads. The story skewered Reagan, but it was the best kind of shitposting. I grew up reading the collections and I like to think it was my first introduction to liberal media that was actually funny. I also read “Utne Reader” and “Newsweek”. Did anyone else grow up thinking that being a defense contractor sounded pretty fun and glamorous?