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The Starlink Gap: Why Every Army Needs a Layer Between Satellites and the Ground
Starlink transformed battlefield communications. And then, in certain places and situations, it stopped working. Here is why — and what fills the gap.
The UGV Connectivity Problem: Why 50,000 Ground Robots Need a Better Link Than Starlink
Ukraine plans to procure 50,000 unmanned ground vehicles in 2026. Nearly all of them run on Starlink. That is a capability. It is also a dependency — and one that European armies cannot replicate at all.
Tethered: Aerostats in Games
Fiction has understood this for a long time. Military observation balloons appear in the earliest war games. A Ukrainian studio set in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone put one at the center of its most critical tactical location. And an animated film imagined floating wind farms above a megacity years before
Notable Aerostat Incidents Around the World
Incident 01 Shot Down by Missiles 1981 "Fat Albert" and the Lobster Fishermen of Florida 📍 Cudjoe Key, Florida, USA · August 1981 The TARS aerostat over Cudjoe Key — the one locals nicknamed "Fat Albert." Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection It started as a routine descent