Fibre-optic drones have taken a more central role on the battlefields in Ukraine. Frontline soldiers describe the conflict as a war of drones and Ukraine has leveraged this technological edge masterfully, holding Russia at bay for several years. It has built a “drone wall”, a defensive network of drones in which Russia continues to hurl wave after wave of soldiers, suffering heavy losses in relentless meatgrinder assaults.
But with radio-controlled drones susceptible to electronic disruption, a new fleet of deadly weapons connected by gossamer threads back to their operator emerged, making them both unjammable and undetectable to conventional electronic warfare systems.
Fibre-optic drones reshape Ukraine’s technological war | Lowy Institute
