<font face="arial" size="2"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The pragmatics of 21st century warfare to me suggest that the hypothetical Starlink detector is basically an irrelevant piece of propaganda.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">You need actual insight into tactics and behavior of the "adversary" to manage operations that have significant effect.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Look at all the money and effort ARPA wasted (under McNamara's DoD) trying to "win" the Vietnam war in the field. This is what results when you let arms-designers (even hacker level wannabes) try to decide what will be useful in the field.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">If you want to understand the Ukraine war, buy a plane ticket to Poland or Ukraine, bring your tools, and go out with the actual combatants. (don't forget to get trained with weapons and basic combat skills).</p>
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