[rosndo]

Ukraine is kind of a scary environment to fly any EW-kitted planes, those things tend to be rather more vulnerable than tactical bombers.

[dzhiurgis]

Doesn't Russia have some satellite constellation that does that anyway? Or some private company just sells this. Even some amateur kubesats would be able to detect this.

[sudosysgen]

They have tremendous range and are immune to MANPADS, so it's as safe as could be.

Russian AWACS has been up since the beginning, and there are no reports of it being shot down.

[rosndo]

For jamming, sure. To accurately locate SpaceX dishes you’ll probably need to get within Buk range.

Ukraine has much more than MANPADS still operational.

[sudosysgen]

No, not for jamming. AWACS are supposed to be able to detect signals beyond the noise floor from very high distances passively.

A starlink dish only has around 35dB of gain and around 4W of transmit power. It's sidelobes can almost certainly be detected from large distances by specialized aircraft.

There is no indication Ukraine has had much success with anything beyond MANPADS.

[rosndo]

> There is no indication Ukraine has had much success with anything beyond MANPADS.

You just aren’t following closely enough.