Elon Musk Says Ukraine Has Been Using Starlink As A Weapon

Elon Musk admits SpaceX purposely restricted Ukraine's Starlink access in war with Russia. He said this on X. Zelensky was using it to kill people. Okay, correct. Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be. Ukraine's military violated Starlink's terms of service and used it to offensive strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week. Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine. This message right here, do you know what the difference was? Here's what was going on. So imagine the drone controllers of Ukraine. While they're sending the drones, they were able to still have control of the drone when it's going 250 miles an hour. That's what they had. The drone is flying. That's pretty fast. And then all of a sudden, they realize, wait a minute, now they're losing control. If they went to 260 miles, they're losing control. At 250, Starlink is allowing them to still have control of the equipment. Elon brings it from 250. They notice they're losing control at 200. At 150, now it's only 100 miles an hour. So you go above 100 miles an hour, you fully lose control of the drone. So you can't go hit a target they wanted to hit. So you can create an autonomous like a, hey, this is the target, go hit it, but I'm losing control. But the failure rate has gone He's gone up heavily because he launched that. He's like, no, I'm not giving you 250 miles an hour. Russia had a harder time being able to control these things coming in at 250 instead of 100. So imagine you're sending swarms of drones going out. Imagine how fast it's flying. You ever seen a car go 250 miles an hour? Most people have not. So imagine what 250 is. Boom, just went. Go in and stop 1,000 of them. Go in and stop 500 of them. So Elon's making a very, very strong stance here.