They could have done a whitelist from day 1, but Ukraine didn’t want to do a whitelist initially. It means having to register every single terminal including non-military in the country.
There was an article as well when this drone / dish thing came up that one official said there are a lot of non-military dishes being used by military personnel who either purchased their own, or had it donated, and they are afraid that by registering it, the military would take it from them for other purposes, but they have to do it now as there’s no other practical solution and the Starlink controlled drones needed to be stopped as they were too hard to intercept/jam.
In terms of stopping the drone usage with a speed limit, that also stopped Ukraine from using drones. It wasn’t a Russia only fix it was a emergency region wide fix to stop all drones over a certain speed. Only with the whitelist can Ukraine continue to use them at high speeds.
They could have done a whitelist from day 1, but Ukraine didn’t want to do a whitelist initially. It means having to register every single terminal including non-military in the country.
There was an article as well when this drone / dish thing came up that one official said there are a lot of non-military dishes being used by military personnel who either purchased their own, or had it donated, and they are afraid that by registering it, the military would take it from them for other purposes, but they have to do it now as there’s no other practical solution and the Starlink controlled drones needed to be stopped as they were too hard to intercept/jam.
In terms of stopping the drone usage with a speed limit, that also stopped Ukraine from using drones. It wasn’t a Russia only fix it was a emergency region wide fix to stop all drones over a certain speed. Only with the whitelist can Ukraine continue to use them at high speeds.
It’s not a simple as you seem to want it to be.