Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are cited as examples where insufficient satellite bandwidth prevented planned activity. Commercial networks can add capacity, but their use does not establish resilience against a peer opponent. The possible interruption of satellite service would reduce the function of dependent drone networks. A debris cascade is raised as a feared scenario if enough satellites were destroyed. Britain's Skynet communications system is also named, without resolving how any network would perform under those conditions.
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Satellite capacity limits the scale of drone operations
Bandwidth shortages and possible disruption make satellite links a constraint on large uncrewed forces.