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It would be easier to shoot it out of the sky than try and jam a whole country from starlink


Putting aside the geopolitics of satellite destruction, we're likely moving to the realm of microwave based disablement instead of kinetic. It's the thing that can scale and provide some plausible deniability while the numbers are low.


Might be easier to jam the uplink. Just modify some starlink units to transmit nonsense and place them around the country.



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