The Navy is testing out the Elon Musk–owned satellite constellation to provide high-speed internet access to sailors at sea. It’s part of a bigger project that’s about more than just getting online.
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Great, so we’re giving him more money. Gdi.
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.
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?
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.