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Starlink works with the Air Force’s secure internet routers used for secret communication, he said.

The Air Force has its own satellite internet system called Hawkeye that’s a lot more expensive and slower, Flores added. A Hawkeye dish costs $250,000 and provides internet speeds of 4 megabytes per second, he said.

The downside of Starlink is that it is a commercial service and not controlled by the government, Flores said.

In September, Musk asked the Pentagon to fund Starlink services in Ukraine but later backtracked and said his company would continue providing the service for free, the BBC reported Oct. 15.

Starlink had become the connectivity backbone of Ukraine all the way up to the front lines, Musk tweeted on Feb. 1.

“This is the damned if you do part,” he wrote. “However, we are not allowing Starlink to be used for long-range drone strikes. This is the damned if you don't part."