A Russian drone slipped into a camouflaged dugout and destroyed a Krab howitzer. The real damage? A warning to every army still betting on heavy artillery.
The latest Russian defense against Ukraine’s best fiber-optic drones is a pair of scissors. It actually works! But there’s no way the Russians can deploy it very widely.
Ukrainian military engineers observed as their new robots withstood jamming but stalled when their glass tethers got caught on battlefield debris and vegetation.
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces test a universal fiber-optic module for all drones, while a US company integrates optical navigation into radio-controlled drones.
Ukrainian Ghost of Khortytsia battalion traced FPV fiber-optic cables gleaming in sunlight back to a control station, neutralizing five Russian drone pilots.
A thin glass thread trailing behind new Russian drones has neutralized billions in electronic warfare defenses. Now, Ukrainian forces are scrambling to devise new air defense strategies.
Ukrainian tech firm Kara Dag pioneers detection systems using sound arrays and infrared scanning to spot Russia's cable-controlled drones, immune to traditional jamming.
The Russian military has successfully deployed fiber optic guidance technology for FPV drones, rendering traditional electronic warfare countermeasures ineffective against these aerial attacks.