"relatively fast" is not what I wanted to read. It should be done as fast as possible. If in order to keep its ability to communicate efficiently Ukraine is forced to accept the latest delirious US demands, it's the entire EU that will lose. Big time.
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Sadly, part of the reality right now is, that there is no perfect swap-in replacement for what Starlink is being used for, that doesn't have some caveats. There probably are some problems in just physical availability of terminals and accompanying logistics - although I'd love a better estimate than "relatively fast" as well.
For just military use, you probably dont need super high bandwidth so i dont think that will be an issue. This also wont be used for remotely controlling robotics or drones, so latency going up 1-200ms is not the end of the world. The real important bit is that the troops can communicate and coordinate, get warnings in time, get satellite images, etc.
The coverage is as you say going to be the thing that will take time to scale up, but that can only be sped up so much.
Sadly, part of the reality right now is, that there is no perfect swap-in replacement for what Starlink is being used for,
100% agree on that but, like you said, I wanted to see a more... encouraging way of saying it. This sounds a bit too much like an already failed effort. Yesterday morning, I was reading the latest US demands on Ukraine (imho, we should all closely read them in order to understand what the USA has now turned into and what kind of treatment we can expect from them in the (near) future) and I think we really should not let Ukraine down at the time they have to face Putin's Russia and now also have to face the new bully on the block, Trump's USAโwhich won't be kind with them the moment they realize they may not get all what they asked from Ukraine (and hopefully they won't get it). Like, not kind at all.
I just learned that Eutelsat is also (still) working for Russian TV stations to stream/broadcast their programs. Do you think it's a good idea to work with an European company who has no moral compass and says it's OK with Putin?