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Damn, I liked DJIs products.
Guess that's another one to add to the blacklist.
Also; I find it impossibly unlikely SpaceX has been entirely unaware of these terminals being active in Russia. They can identify the location of any active terminal via the satellite constellation and either gps or simply triangulation of the signals.
I'm sure they were selling them drones too.
If it comes from China it's hitting the shade at some point my friend the difference is in how much.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
(Well actually I'm surprised it's DJI, they could actually face sanctions if the US wanted to. I wouldn't be surprised if it were a pop up shop.)
Sanction how? Both sides are buying all the Mavics they can get their hands on. DGI is the bell of the ball.
So now we can pinpoint the Russian outposts when the terminals make contact with the satellites?
If Starlink will provide location information in a timely manner, which I don't have much confidence in.
But… but musk said that starlink isn’t meant to be used for WAR! He surely wouldn’t lie in order to attempt to spin his intent to prolong the war and sell to the other side through an intermediary!!!
Not with Elon running things considering he decided not allowing Ukraine to quickly win the war would start WWIII.
No Such Agency surely has a…workaround…for gathering the data.
The US DoD should seize that company and its assets.
When Elon dies and all the truths come out, I guarantee you we will find out that he was fully aware of this.
Get to the choppa!
Wait does this mean they are cloned like every other Chinese factory made product? Are they made in Chinese factories?
Nope, they are official resellers for China (and Mongolia?)
Edit; which in my view makes it worse, Elon probably wanted this to happen....
ITAR is pretty direct about these situations: if you sell to a 3rd party and that 3rd party sells to an ITAR-restricted country, you're gonna get investigated HARD.
I think starshield is the only one that's ITAR controlled
I don't know the specifics of how it applies to Starlink, but I work in telecom and just about everything I do is ITAR controlled. I don't even make the telecom devices, just equipment to test them.
Terminals are uplinks to remote resources. They would be at minimum be able to see the terminals being used to connect to Russian VPNs and note that they are being used in areas controlled by Russia that are not contested. Our lawmakers must compel them to turn over the entire internal communications to a special master to determine what they knew about this and when and decision makers including Musk must be summoned to congress. When not if it is discovered that they were aware or willfully blind prosecutions for treason should begin. In between A and B the entire operation should be seized and operated by the US army.
As someone considered a "foreign person" in the context of these export regulations...
ITAR! ITAR! ITAR!
god of war