The Discord Leaks: Moscow’s bid to sever Ukrainian forces’ internet access is more sophisticated than previously known, leaked document shows.
Sources: Locations from the Secure World Foundation. Estimated target area from U.S. classified documents.
The experiment, launched in late September, was meant to last 25 days, the U.S. intelligence assessment says, but more than five months had elapsed since the start of the tests and when the leaked document was prepared for senior U.S. officials. The briefing slide does not say why the experiment had gone on so long, if Russia had encountered any problems, or whether the operation had had its intended effect.
“The public documentation that we have talks about it being a defensive system, in that Tobol would be used to detect somebody else trying to jam or interfere with Russian satellites. It would analyze those interfering signals, and then broadcast a counter-signal that would try to negate the interference,” Weeden said.
“But if you can do that,” he added, “you can probably use those same capabilities to offensively interfere with somebody else’s satellite.”There are only faint hints and disclosures publicly available about the Tobol program, referred to in Russian documents as 14Ts227, and its capabilities has been a mystery for years. Researchers said the program appears to have started about a decade ago.
limited public information available about the Tobal program, initially concluded that the system was defensive in nature, according to his 2020
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