❗️❗️Russia has successfully launched the first unmanned stratospheric 5G platform, Barrage-1, to compensate for the Starlink blockage, — Flash. The main function is to relay 5G as an alternative to satellite communications. The platform can lift up to 100 kg to a height of up to 20 km and... can stay in the stratosphere for several days. The deployment of such platforms will allow Russia to provide high-speed Internet and communications in vast territories where the construction of towers is impossible.show more

Russia launching 5G balloons? I have seen this somewhere...

"5G signal distance varies by frequency, ranging from 600 meters (0.4 miles) for high-speed mmWave to over 1.6–5 km (1–3 miles) for lower-frequency bands." So... how can this balloon be 5G? It makes no sense.

Give Ukraine the means to shoot it down or block it!

Nothing a sidewinder missile can’t handle.

Propaganda, 5G doesnt go more than 15 km.

Isn't that highly vulnerable technology? The maximum range of the 5G used to be up to 35 km and since it must be radiologically active all the time it is a perfect target for anything you want to use against it.

Hilarious. 5G towers density is typically one tower at each 200-300 meters, and the connection starts to fail at 200-300 meters of height too. So good luck with 10 kilometers 😂

Ukraine will be the first to successfully destroy an unmanned stratospheric 5ag platform.

Balloons flying at 65,000 feet would make great target practice for F 16s.

Need to take them out! If using a receiver with high gain, and low noise front end fed by a high gain antenna, and transmitter is high enough power, line of sight at that altitude is completely doable! And line of sight at that altitude shows the curve of the earth! However in theory: Condition Range Perfect lab conditions ~670 km Practical reliable link (20 dB margin) ~65–100 km With directional 20–30 dBi antennas 200–400+ km

What the fuck

"we have spacex at home"

looks similar to Project Loon by Google/Alphabet. it deployed first baloons in 2013 and was ultimately shut down in 2021

🗑🇷🇺killing 🗑🇷🇺 with hope 🤌🤣🤣🤣

As we saw in Feb. 2023 ... balloons aren't rocket proof

We should tell Pete Hegseth. He could shoot it down with his James Bond laser gun.

It will be fun to see which countermeasures Ukraine comes up with!

Uhhh front big 😂 considering the range of 5G and the fact that one of these can only remain suspended for several days, this seems highly impractical, unless I’m missing something

Technically impossible (5 G is not made for such distances), tactically stupid - really easy targets to shoot down. Either they will be too high to work or too low not to be shoot down easily. This must be misinformation. And how do they control their altitude and position?

Isn’t 5G mainly short distance ? 🧐

20KM is roughly 65,000ft. The F-16 has a service ceiling of 55,000ft under normal conditions. It carries modern air-to-air missiles that reach well above its own altitude.

@JohnHealey_MP sounds like a great test target for the new lasers 🤷‍♀️

Собьют нахуй в первые же дни

Nice show russia, thats a try to calm down the blamage and rage ongoing under #russiansoldiers

You also have no idea what the winds are like in the stratosphere and what the range of 5G is.Something doesn't add up here it's bullshit. Unless you're strapped low to the ground.

What a pity the Russians nailed all their mobile phones to trees but no doubt Huawei will be only too keen to send them some more or perhaps there are some spare gold 'Trumphone's available.

So the launch one of these every few hours as the batteries die? I'm confused on how this is feasable

Above 10km of altitude, the wind generally blows from West to East above Ukraine, i.e. back to russia.

If only Russians knew how to do anything other than rape, torture and murder their neighbors, they might have a chance at doing something technical.

When the wind is blowing towards Russia, Ukrainians should be tethering AI enabled drones that are released in areas of interest for a special purpose.

We need space lazers to disrupt them.

On a balloon? That thing goes wherever the wind blows, not where Russia tells it to. No way.

The NTN system's range would be 200 kilometers at an altitude of 20 kilometers, so placing it 80 kilometers from the front would only provide local coverage.