Are there missiles that aren’t susceptible to jamming? I was expecting ballistic missiles to be used for this purpose. To reduce heat signature tracking I thought that they’d throw off the projectile system after acquiring height and direction. But I don’t know if they can be picked up by some form of active scan.
I imagine that any missile that has to hit a target precisely over a long distance needs to be able to do course corrections to account for stuff like air drag and turbulence.
Starlink is the weak link here. The US military have access to their own satellite network but obviously won’t share that with Ukraine, hence the relative ease of jamming in this case. Russian tech being able to jam civilian satellites isn’t noteworthy.
Please do provide sources that Starklink is used for targeting weapons. I’d love to see those. Last I saw, it’s widely admitted now that western “contractors” are responsible for operating western guided weapons, meaning that they are using US satellite network. Also, not sure why you’d think that if Starlink can be jammed, then US military satellites wouldn’t be jammed the same way.
If you work on your reading comprehension, you’ll see that nowhere does it say that Starlink is used for targeting. It’s used for communication and that’s being disrupted along with targeting systems which have fuck all to do with Starlink.
These two things aren’t mutually exclusive however. US war industry is always looking for ways to justify higher spending, but it’s pretty clear that the quality of weapons it produces is incredibly poor as well.
Very well could be. At this point, I’m so suspicious of all these reports. It feels like trying to figure out what’s happening inside a company while relying only on their ads and PR communications: The only thing that I do know for sure is that everyone involved wants more money and is full of shit.
OP is a raging tankie and pro-Russian propagandist, but I’ll bite. Starlink is the weak link here. The US military have access to their own satellite network but obviously won’t share that with Ukraine, hence the relative ease of jamming in this case.