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What's the best practices supposed to be for this kind of thing? Satellite phone?

• tablespoon 5y ago
  >> Russia took out Ukraine’s cell towers, which broke their own encrypted comms. They then switched to radio but the Ukrainians started flooding the channels with music. So now they’re on unencrypted personal phones. > What's the best practices supposed to be for this kind of thing? Satellite phone? The GP isn't internally consistent (how could they switch to "unencrypted personal phones" if they took out the cell towers), but my non-expert guess is the solution to their problem is probably better radios. It sounds like the Ukrainian jamming might be an amateur effort since it uses music, and I doubt a radio that uses frequency hopping would be very vulnerable to that. I've also read reports that the Russians troops have been issued civilian radios from a Chinese manufacturer, so we can hope they were dumb enough to have their generals use similar equipment. IIRC, I read somewhere that one of the weaknesses of the Russian BTG is that they have relied on local paramilitaries to provide security, and the commanders have to rely on cell phones to communicate with those groups.