Russia is hiding anti-Starlink jammers in parking lots and trailers on the front lines: Ukraine drone expert
Source: Business Insider ·
Russia is expanding use of trailer-mounted jammers that target the satellite, instead of the drone, to counter Starshield, a top drone expert said.
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A Ukrainian soldier operates a GARA long-range drone.Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA top Ukrainian drone expert says Russia is deploying more jammers to counter Starshield.These Volna Kupol Garant systems beam interference at specific satellites as they pass overhead.They first emerged in 2024, but Russia said this August that it's begun serial production of the system.Russia is rolling out more trailer-mounted jammers designed to prevent Ukraine's attack drones from connecting to SpaceX's satellites, according to a top Ukrainian analyst.Each jammer can provide point defense covering about 25 square kilometers, or about 9.6 square miles, said Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov, a Ukrainian presidential advisor on drones."Russia has covered nearly all important sites in Crimea with this type of EW and is increasingly deploying it along the front line," Beskrestnov wrote on Monday on his Telegram channel.He said the Kremlin was deploying the systems to counter Ukraine's…
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