• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t the United States already have military communication satellites? If they wanted to give network connectivity to Ukranian drones, I’m pretty sure they could have done so as well.

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      1 year ago

      bandwidth/latency might be an issue, but I’m not sure since I’m not an expert

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        1 year ago

        I think it probably has more to do with not wanting to escalate to a direct war against Russia or give them a reason to try to shoot down satellites.