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russia deployed a new electronic warfare system, volna kupol garant, designed to disrupt starlink by targeting the satellites themselves rather than ground terminals. at the same time a firm called endeavor optical networks is pitching laser satellite links for intercontinental data transfer explicitly as an alternative to undersea cables after severings in the red sea, baltic and taiwan strait. pressure is moving upward: the contested layer is shifting from seabed to orbit.

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#starlink#electronic warfare#orbital#subsea cables

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russia has operationally deployed a trailer-mounted electronic warfare system called volna-kupol-garant that uses satellite dishes to jam starlink communications used to guide ukrainian drone strikes, protecting approximately 20 square kilometers of territory. this is the first publicly disclosed operational anti-satellite jamming system specifically targeting the starlink asset class. starlink-guided drones have been a structurally important element of ukrainian offensive capability, and a purpose-built countermeasure reaching the field marks a qualitative shift in that domain. 94%
taiwan accused china of deliberately damaging the undersea cable linking the island to the united states, cutting a primary telecommunications path. separately, russia showed an electronic warfare system aimed at overwhelming starlink ground antennas with radio-frequency noise rather than harming the satellites — two different ways of severing connectivity without destroying hardware. 92%
documents point to a joint russian-chinese effort to build weapons specifically aimed at disabling or destroying the starlink satellite network via malware and jamming, with russia trading battlefield experience for chinese technology. separately, a russia- and china-linked shadow fleet is suspected of damaging subsea cables using ais blackouts and false flags. both target the physical backbone of global connectivity. 92%
the starlink satellite network came under two unrelated pressures in the same cycle: russian forces widely resumed electronic-warfare jamming against it in ukraine, and a chinese zhuque-2e rocket upper stage broke apart in low orbit near the constellation and the international space station, with u.s. space force folding the debris into collision tracking. simultaneous deliberate interference and physical orbital risk on a single commercial network is notable. 91%
scientists and military experts confirmed that russian orbital systems are actively jamming gps signals from space, with potential costs to infrastructure measured in hundreds of billions and vulnerabilities extending to power grids, communications, and financial systems. separately, nato's baltic sentry operation reduced undersea cable sabotage response time from 17 hours to 1 hour over the past year — a significant operational improvement in a layer that had seen repeated incidents. these two signals together show the infrastructure layer is simultaneously hardening in one theater and being actively degraded in another. 91%
a disruption to russian access to starlink exposed how dependent modern military communications, intelligence and drone operations have become on a single private satellite network, with no sovereign european alternative. in the same window a french team completed deployment of 25 sovereign iot nanosatellites — the first european constellation of its kind — signaling a push toward orbital independence. 91%

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