Ukraine needs to find ways to shoot those down (again)
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Thumpalumpacus
Lieutenant Colonel
Musk and Rubio spar with Polish minister over Ukraine's use of Starlink
The three went back and forth in an exchange of posts on X over Starlink being cut off in Ukraine.www.bbc.com
Proving once more -- as if it were needed -- that Musk is an utter twatwaffle.
special ed
1st Lieutenant
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- May 13, 2018
Time to see how well the Mirage & F-16 work.
fubar57
General
Hmmmmm
www.cbc.ca
Ukraine to propose limited ceasefire with Russia at Saudi summit, officials say | CBC News
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived Monday in Saudi Arabia for a visit with its powerful crown prince ahead of his team's meeting with America's top diplomat.
MiTasol
Captain
Please stop insulting utter twatwaffle's. He is far worse.
It will be difficult without US intel.
Thumpalumpacus
Lieutenant Colonel
The French operate 4 E-3A Sentries, the Swedes also operate AWACS, perhaps they could help?
MiTasol
Captain
I think that Ukraine was given a couple of SAAB 340 AWACS. Not as big so probably not as capable but infinitely better than nothing.
buffnut453
Captain
I wonder if the RAF is accelerating its Wedgetail acquisition? They're due to enter service in late 2025 but I'd hope they are taking steps to speed that up given what's going on in the world.
It's highly unlikely that it can be. From 5 days ago.
UK E-7 Wedgetail programme inches forward
The UK’s E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control programme is progressing, with three aircraft currently undergoing modification and a targeted in-service date of late 2025, according to the Ministry of Defence.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
The French operate 4 E-3F AWACS (E-3C standard but powered hy powered CFM-56 engines), and with mods to suit the French Air & Space Force.
Last Info I found was they have not arrived yet, rumors are transfer blocked due to US electronics aboard
MiTasol
Captain
That could well be right and it would take time to modify them to use French or other electronics.
I would say more but that would kill the thread.
I would say more but that would kill the thread.
ThomasP
Chief Master Sergeant
The emissions of the A-50U aircraft can be picked up by ground based ELINT and/or the more advanced AAM passive surveillance and acquisition radar systems easily enough, and accurately enough for intercept by radar equipped aircraft.
Escuadrilla Azul
Tech Sergeant
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Are they usable at any time without consensus? I can see the USA blocking nowadays its use if consensus is a requisite
Thumpalumpacus
Lieutenant Colonel
Experts have cast doubt on Elon Musk's claim that a large-scale outage which hit X was caused by hackers in Ukraine.
Platform monitor Downdetector says it had more than 1.6 million reports of problems with the social media site from users around the world on Monday.
"We're not sure exactly what happened but there was a massive cyber-attack to try and bring down the X system with IP [Internet Protocol] addresses originating in the Ukraine area," Musk said in an interview with the Fox Business channel.
However, Ciaran Martin, professor at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government told the BBC that explanation was "wholly unconvincing" and "pretty much garbage."
Prof Martin - former head of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre - says it looks as if X was targeted by what's known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, where hackers flood a server with internet traffic to prevent users from connecting to a website.
"It's not that sophisticated - it's a very old technique," Mr Martin told Radio 4's Today programme.
"I can't think of a company of the size and standing internationally of X that's fallen over to a DDoS attack for a very long time," he added.
He said the incident at X "doesn't reflect well on their cyber security."
Many users trying to access the platform and refresh feeds on its app and desktop site during Monday's outages were met with a loading icon.
Musk, who has been a frequent critic of Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelensky, has offered no evidence to support his claim and did not say whether or not he thought state actors were involved.
www.bbc.com
If Ukraine/Ukrainians did do it, good for them.
Platform monitor Downdetector says it had more than 1.6 million reports of problems with the social media site from users around the world on Monday.
"We're not sure exactly what happened but there was a massive cyber-attack to try and bring down the X system with IP [Internet Protocol] addresses originating in the Ukraine area," Musk said in an interview with the Fox Business channel.
However, Ciaran Martin, professor at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government told the BBC that explanation was "wholly unconvincing" and "pretty much garbage."
Prof Martin - former head of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre - says it looks as if X was targeted by what's known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, where hackers flood a server with internet traffic to prevent users from connecting to a website.
"It's not that sophisticated - it's a very old technique," Mr Martin told Radio 4's Today programme.
"I can't think of a company of the size and standing internationally of X that's fallen over to a DDoS attack for a very long time," he added.
He said the incident at X "doesn't reflect well on their cyber security."
Many users trying to access the platform and refresh feeds on its app and desktop site during Monday's outages were met with a loading icon.
Musk, who has been a frequent critic of Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelensky, has offered no evidence to support his claim and did not say whether or not he thought state actors were involved.
'Garbage' to blame Ukraine for massive X outage, experts say
The claim has been made by the platform's owner Elon Musk, a vocal critic of Ukraine and its president.
www.bbc.com
If Ukraine/Ukrainians did do it, good for them.
Snautzer01
Marshal
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DDoS is a very very ancient way.
One can buy such an attack on the deep web. The amount of computers in the attack sets the price.
Russians are very well known for this as are Ukrainians.
One can buy such an attack on the deep web. The amount of computers in the attack sets the price.
Russians are very well known for this as are Ukrainians.
It's the joy of having internet-of-things. All those smart thermostates, smart-electricity meters and smart smart-washingmachines are liable to be used in a DDOS network if their security is not up to snuf (which they usually aren't).
fubar57
General
As pause on Ukraine support has "emboldened Russia," Trump's terms for restarting aid are still murky
"The president of the United States did not say it has ended. He said it is paused," said U.S. envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg.
www.cbsnews.com
Token
Senior Airman
I don't know how / who is involved in planning use, but they (NATO E3's) are up pretty much daily. For example, right now, as I type this (1615 UTC), two are up in Europe, reg # LX-N90445 and LX-N90456/
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