Isn't it fucking weird that we are using a privately owned satellite network to run our military's internet rather than a network entirely in our control?
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
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US military already controls all GPS satellites for military operations. For that reason, EU has its own Galileo system, Russia has Glonass and China has Beidou.
While this would be for non-operational stuff only, it's still a bad look and reason to look into finances of people making this decision.
Perfect now they can sit on the toilet while scrolling through their phones in the middle of the Atlantic now too!
You assume they didn't already? They knew they were up for a 6mo deployment and stockpiled porn and pirated video to accomodate.
Oh I’m sure they are especially the poor saps on nuclear submarines. But now the guys on ships can get the fresh stuff off onlyfans and whatever the new fmovies is. Hooray for living in the future!
Just want to point out this sounds like entertainment internet for the crew as some of the comments seem to think the ships are going to be using it for command and control or something.
I'm going to laugh when the 2034 Chinese-American War sees the US Navy get wiped out on Day 1 to a drone swarm using hacked Starlink connections for targeting. Bitches just don't learn.
Elon would just sell out. No hacking needed. Just too much “free speech” for him to handle. The country could nationalize glonass and he’d just throw sand in the mix cause he can and will die rich regardless…
Great, so we're giving him more money. Gdi.