Some are so old the "fusion core recharger", as I'd like to call the xtar charger, don't even recognize them anymore. The charger touted it can revive overdischarged batteries but nope. Not even a peep.

I also found a few definitely fake 18650 cells. They're so light I could throw em a mile away if I throw at my best. I put em on, graded what I had and one only had about 200 or so mAh. There's one that the charger didn't even bother ! It recognized something's on the slot, but gave up

#xtar

@pavel23 It's not just #Musk, but also #Trump aka. #AgentKrasnov that are into it.

• The fact that Trump isn't impeached if not dragged out of office due to repeat violations of his oath aka. #HighTreason is beyond me...

That being said this ain't magic: Some fine-tuned LNB that is tuned to the Ka-Band uplink frequency or a harmonic of it, a simple 40cm offset dish and a hackRF is all one needs to do some #ElectronicWarfare and #SIGINT.

• I could build this myself and shove it into a Droptank-Pod of a Su-27 Frogfoot given a workshop, time and budget to do so.

#Starlink as a #civilian communications system doesn't have the cool military features of systems like #Iridium (espechally #NettedIridium) or #XTAR...

@mastodonmigration @GottaLaff noone relies solely on #Starlink, espechally given it's big-ass dishes.

• Even the #US #DoD uses #Iridium & #UHFSATCOM.

• #SES & #Eutelsat have various commercial #Cband, #KuBand & #KaBand transponders for bidirectional data from their GSOs.

• #XTAR has a #Xband-Spotbeam.

• #Ukraine has both #Fiber and #Radio links (civilian and military) to link together units and emplacements. Espechally direct-burial/lie-flat fiber is used because #COTS parts are cheap, commonplace and unlike copper, they can do 160km+ without amplifiers with ample of room for splices.

Pretty shure Starlink was a mere "comfort feature" allowing units to send their drone footage from their FOB to HQ for instant #Meme|fication and "scoreboard updates" but I'm shure worst-case the #NAFO friends will just pack in some 2,5" SSDs and USB cases with the next supply trucks or have some #Skyhook-Style delivery system if that was ever needed.

• I'm shure the folks in the trenches will miss YouTubing in their toilet break, but I'm shure they still have enough #Memes and #Entertainment in reserve to compensate for it.