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Greetings.
So yeah, i believe everyone already heard about the Space-X's new ambitious plan for connectivity named as Starlink. This will involve thousands of LEO or V-LEO Satellites, forming a massive web of global coverage.
Two major points of Starlink seems to be of a great potentials for military applications, namely :
-Global/near global coverage
-Lower latency
maybe the third is Bandwidth as it works on Ku-Ka band.
Those three potentials appears to be very promising for things like :
-Realtime guidance of Unmanned platform or remote ISR.
-ESM/ELINT/Geolocation as the Satellites appears to enough numbers and baseline distance to form interferometric Direction finding or maybe even DTOA. Frequency coverage will of course be limited by the antenna.
-Realtime mid-course update and re-targeting of cruise and ballistic missile in flight.
-Connectivity to grunts, Starlink coverage can cover military bases and perhaps area of operations, high bandwidth and low latency allows more rapid and perhaps flexible command to be sent to the squad in the field.
-Ku Band non-cooperative Bi/Multi-Static radar for low altitude gap filler radar
Historically, those applications were handled by dedicated platforms such as ground stations, Satellites or specialized aircraft (e.g BACN). This involves millions of dollars of acquisition, launch and maintenance. Starlink if successfull seems to be very promising and not to mention *cheaper* somewhat. Potential terrorist organization might also utilize Starlink to provide them with "precision" strike capability, controlling UAV's and strike from 300 Km away.
So yeah what do you guys think ? Granted that like the GPS there are vulnerabilities, but the opportunity appears to be very real. Particularly with the ability to provide more than latitude-longitude and altitude.
So yeah, i believe everyone already heard about the Space-X's new ambitious plan for connectivity named as Starlink. This will involve thousands of LEO or V-LEO Satellites, forming a massive web of global coverage.
Two major points of Starlink seems to be of a great potentials for military applications, namely :
-Global/near global coverage
-Lower latency
maybe the third is Bandwidth as it works on Ku-Ka band.
Those three potentials appears to be very promising for things like :
-Realtime guidance of Unmanned platform or remote ISR.
-ESM/ELINT/Geolocation as the Satellites appears to enough numbers and baseline distance to form interferometric Direction finding or maybe even DTOA. Frequency coverage will of course be limited by the antenna.
-Realtime mid-course update and re-targeting of cruise and ballistic missile in flight.
-Connectivity to grunts, Starlink coverage can cover military bases and perhaps area of operations, high bandwidth and low latency allows more rapid and perhaps flexible command to be sent to the squad in the field.
-Ku Band non-cooperative Bi/Multi-Static radar for low altitude gap filler radar
Historically, those applications were handled by dedicated platforms such as ground stations, Satellites or specialized aircraft (e.g BACN). This involves millions of dollars of acquisition, launch and maintenance. Starlink if successfull seems to be very promising and not to mention *cheaper* somewhat. Potential terrorist organization might also utilize Starlink to provide them with "precision" strike capability, controlling UAV's and strike from 300 Km away.
So yeah what do you guys think ? Granted that like the GPS there are vulnerabilities, but the opportunity appears to be very real. Particularly with the ability to provide more than latitude-longitude and altitude.
