{"id":44230,"date":"2026-01-30T20:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/musk-responded-to-fedorovs-request-regarding-the-use-of-starlink-on-russian-uavs\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:51:19","slug":"musk-responded-to-fedorovs-request-regarding-the-use-of-starlink-on-russian-uavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/musk-responded-to-fedorovs-request-regarding-the-use-of-starlink-on-russian-uavs\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk responded to Fedorov&apos;s request regarding the use of Starlink on Russian UAVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk responded to the request of Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov regarding the use of Starlink on Russian UAVs. Ukrainian specialists discovered a Starlink terminal on a Russian BM-35 drone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2026%2F01%2F30%2F1769805229-3095-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Musk responded to Fedorov&#039;s request regarding the use of Starlink on Russian UAVs\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov&#039;s request regarding the use of Starlink on Russian UAVs, writing: &quot;You&#039;re welcome.&quot; This is reported by UNN with reference to Musk&#039;s tweet on the X social network. <\/p>\n<h2>Details <\/h2>\n<p>&quot;You&#039;re welcome,&quot; Musk wrote, responding to Fedorov&#039;s post. <\/p>\n<h2>Addition<\/h2>\n<p>The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine promptly contacted SpaceX to resolve the issue of Starlink&#039;s use on Russian drones. Mykhailo Fedorov thanked Elon Musk for his quick response and for starting work on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Ukrainian specialists discovered a Starlink terminal on board a downed Russian BM-35 drone. This allows operators to control the device over long distances, making it almost invulnerable to electronic warfare.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the integration of SpaceX satellite communications into the drone&#039;s design allows operators to control the device in real time over vast distances. The main problem is that such drones become almost invulnerable to standard electronic warfare systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk responded to the request of Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov regarding the use of Starlink on Russian UAVs. Ukrainian specialists discovered a Starlink terminal on a Russian BM-35 drone. Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov&#039;s request regarding the use of Starlink on Russian UAVs, writing: &quot;You&#039;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}