Royal Navy to trial Elon Musk’s Starlink internet on flagship aircraft carrier

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/11/royal-navy-to-trial-elon-musks-starlink-internet/

by MGC91

33 comments

  1. Just to highlight this, Starlink will not be used for anything official. It is purely for welfare purposes to allow sailors to keep in contact with their family and friends, use social networks and streaming services etc.

    It is very much a positive for those onboard, however there would be no operational impact if it wasn’t available.

  2. Putin to Musk: “Do you want to send me the live coordinates of the UK’s flagship aircraft carrier please?”

  3. This seems like a security risk to me. The guy is a nazi.

  4. Give Musk who appears to act as a Russian asset a way to track our military movements, well this seems like a great idea /s

  5. Why is our government and army so dumb .. why would we even do that like legit may aswel hand your location to Russia at this point

  7. Did they forget about the UK governments bailout in OneWeb and subsequent minority ownership in Eutelstat?

    The owner of Starlink just shared that Hitler didn’t kill millions.

  8. Why, so we can have Russian captains kamikaze our fleet? 

  9. This is a fuck off security risk. He’ll be sending information straight to Moscow.

  10. Elon Musk can no longer be trusted to act in anyone’s best interests but his own financial and power ones.

    He bought a government, a president, and has tried to buy others (UK, Hungary, are the two most notable ones).

    Why would anyone in their right mind give this guy a contract for anything at all.

    If we didn’t trust the Chinese firm Huawei with our 5G for public use, then we should not trust Musk with anything for our military or our public.

  11. Well that’s fucking stupid. What next, asking Russia to police the GIUK gap?

  12. What a fucking awful idea, to be reliant on the whims of the First Lady to a fascist.

  13. Where to even begin lol.

    Days ago Musk was calling for the US to leave Nato.

    Does noone think this hugely influential ‘private citizen’ who appears to hold cabinet meetings in the White House might represent a security risk or conflict of interest by providing even non-operational internet on our Navy ships?

    It’s a trial for now. A trial for non-operational internet as i already stated. But who knows where this could end.

    This man and his products/services should be nowhere near our military in my opinion.

    Do we have no other options?

    Lastly, my Grandfather fought in WWII like millions of others. He survived though many didn’t. I wonder what he would say about our government giving military contracts to a company owned by a man who gave those questionable salutes on stage, on screen, for billions to see on the night of the President of the United States inauguration. It’s as disgraceful as it is distasteful.

  14. May aswell send Navy data straight to Russia and cut out the middle man!

  15. To everyone saying it can be tracked and location shared… surely the captain will just turn off the antenna when on sensitive missions and it won’t work then?

    They can’t be that stupid otherwise…

  16. Please tell me this isn’t real.

    Are we actually mad?

  17. Erm how about no?

    This sounds like an extremely bad idea.

    Besides giving money to a literal Nazi the security implications of Musk’s shady involvement with the Kremlin are also questionable.

    Why can’t Europe get together and create their own Starlink style network or use Oneweb-Eutelsat or another competitor in this space?

  18. The UK literally owns starlink’s major competitor, OneWeb! Why the fuck would we pay for Starlink on our ships, our flagship no less, especially when the US is busy threatening us?

    To clarify, the difference in speed is 150Mb vs 200Mb with a minor difference in TTL. Both are suitable for gaming. Yes, OneWeb is directed at businesses and is more expensive, but we literally own it. We can give our armed forces a deal. Easy! This makes no sense at all, unless we distrust the business structure where Eulestat, the French side of the company is not to be trusted. However, it’s pretty clear who the unstable partner is right now and it’s not France!

  19. Starmer needs to veto this and put strict requirements for all future military procurements to exempt anything american. Everything must be British or European.

  20. They’re a bit slow in the uptake by the sound of it. Whatever happened to the Skynet (yes really) satellites?

  21. The fuck are we playing at?! Get this Nazi cunt as far away from us as possible.

  22. I think its a good use of the system if its used for personal crew use only. The crew can communicate with home, and stream crap on star link which keeps the encrypted bandwidth free

  23. I will say that as someone who works on cruise ships sometimes, Starlink is crazy good. I was doing video conference calls in the middle of the North Sea and nobody could tell.

    But, given who owns the company, this is a huge risk. Cruises, sure. Military, no.

  24. Straight no. Trial sure. Apease fat orange fuck face. Buy….. HELL NO

  25. Why the fuck would you do this. Europe needs to wake and start some serious developments and production in house.

  26. Please, for the love of all that is holy, just don’t. Have a trial by all means, just to keep the Mango Mussolini and Ketamine Karen happy, but let’s not ever rely on Starlink for our national security.

  27. BOOOO!!!

    There’s a European alternative.

    Try it, hate it, return it and by EU instead.

  28. I’d rather this contract go to a UK based or European based company.

    Too many people seem to think this is for direct military applications rather than a trial for service men and women to use whilst away at sea for personal coms and entertainment.

    So it’s not a real security risk. It does seem short sighted though rewarding even a short term contract to a company controlled by the guy who is actively trying to sabotage the strongest defence pact ever created.

  29. Why? Elon can’t be trusted after threaten to shut off starlink over Ukraine and like UK after supporting alt right groups and false news.

  30. How about we work with the EU and boost iris to provide global internet coverage and not work with Elon on anything

  32. Is it powered by Russian oil aswell? Just go the full hog and have it made in China to boot

  33. I think it’s a huge security risk, even if only used for entertainment.

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