{"id":138820,"date":"2022-04-30T02:03:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T07:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/elon-musks-spacex-shuts-down-russian-jamming-attack"},"modified":"2022-04-30T02:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T07:03:22","slug":"elon-musks-spacex-shuts-down-russian-jamming-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/elon-musks-spacex-shuts-down-russian-jamming-attack","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX Shuts Down Russian Jamming Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elon Musk&#039;s SpaceX Shuts Down Russian Jamming Attack!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WGZBFNOKh3Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to responding to emerging threats, the Pentagon\u2019s director for electromagnetic warfare suggested today that the US military\u2019s electronic warfare organization should borrow a leaf from SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX founder Elon Musk said that Russia had jammed Starlink terminals in Ukraine for hours at a time after SpaceX shipped Starlink terminals to Ukraine in February in an apparent effort to help Ukraine preserve its internet connection amid the war with Russia. Starlink was back up and running after a software upgrade, according to Musk, who added on March 25 that the constellation had \u201cresisted all hacking &amp; jamming attempts\u201d in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming Musk \u2014 who is known for being a showboater in his public pronouncements \u2014 is giving an accurate image, a private company thwarting Russian EW attempts with software updates is the kind of thing that makes Pentagon EW experts sit up and take notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s wonderful from the standpoint of an EW technologist. Dave Tremper, head of electronic warfare for the Pentagon\u2019s acquisition office, remarked, \u201cThat paradigm and how they executed that is sort of eyewatering to me.\u201d \u201cWe need to be able to upgrade in the same way that Starlink was able to when a threat appeared. We need to be able to modify our electromagnetic posture quickly, and we need to be able to change what we\u2019re attempting to do without sacrificing capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lPAZZ3\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lPAZZ3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to responding to emerging threats, the Pentagon\u2019s director for electromagnetic warfare suggested today that the US military\u2019s electronic warfare organization should borrow a leaf from SpaceX. SpaceX founder Elon Musk said that Russia had jammed Starlink terminals in Ukraine for hours at a time after SpaceX shipped Starlink terminals to Ukraine in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2019,418,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}