Originally Posted by
_Agrajag_
Ukraine has shown that Starlink is exceptionally difficult to jam, too. Russia has been trying without any success. Probably due to the high speed of the SVs, plus the clever technology in the beam steered arrays in the ground stations.
Not really.
The crucial advantage that Starlink has
in current the Ukrainian conflict is that all the gateway ground stations - the easily attackable weak point in the system - are outside Ukraine but in adjacent NATO countries and therefore not available to be taken out. A Hellfire size warhead would probably disable a Starlink gateway ground station, but to attack one would certainly be a NATO Article 5 initiator.
In a more general war, these ground stations - like those for other satellite systems - would be right at the top of the Infrastructure targets list, and would put Starlink out of action very quickly. It is the unique characteristics of the Ukraine 'Special Military Operation' that make Starlink pretty much invulnerable