Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully repelled an attack by Russian hackers on the Starlink system, which provides access to satellite Internet, including for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Dave Tremper, director of the Pentagon's Electronic Warfare Department, told Defense news..

According to him, the Russians tried to jam the Starlink signal that goes to Ukraine last month..

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“The next day [after reports of Russian jamming attempts appeared in the media], Starlink added a line of code and reflected them. And suddenly this [Russian jamming attack] stopped being effective. From the point of view of an electronic warfare technologist, this is fantastic... and the way they did it amazed me, ”Tremper said.

He also stated that additional capacity is also extremely important in the current environment, since if one system fails as a result of an attack, it can be replaced by another..

The Pentagon also stressed that Russian attempts to conduct electronic warfare in Ukraine showed how important it is to quickly respond and stop such attempts.. The agency monitors how the private sector copes with such threats in order to improve its own line of defense..

Recall that the first batch of Starlink satellite Internet stations from Elon Musk arrived in Ukraine in response to the request of the Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov. After the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Elon Musk activated the Starlink Internet for the first time over the territory of our country..

Musk's Starlink system helps the Ukrainian army track down and destroy invaders. Satellite communications are actively used in the army for communication in hard-to-reach places - Starlink has significantly improved this process.