Web of death covers the Ukrainian fields.
Drones have become the most lethal weapons in the Russia-Ukraine war, from small user-quality quadcopters dropping bombs, up to sophisticated attack drones like the Iranian Shahed (called by Russians ‘Geran’) flying in swarms.
The inexpensive devices have all but retired the million-dollar tanks, and a technological EW race was on to find ways to jam the frequencies of the drones, disturbing the operator’s control and crashing them off-target.
That was going on for a while, until small, unjammable drones controlled by fiber-optic cables began dominating the battlefields.
They have become so integral to Russian and Ukrainian operations that they leave massive trails of cabling everywhere, turning the battlefield into a tangled web.
Business Insider reported:
“As a counter to extensive electronic warfare, fiber-optic drones are becoming increasingly prevalent on both sides. And with sprawling cables stretched across the battlefield, soldiers are moving with greater caution.
‘You see the little webs, and you never know — is it from the fiber-optic drone? Or it’s a part of a booby trap’, Khyzhak, a Ukrainian special operator who for security reasons could only be identified by his call sign (“Predator” in Ukrainian), told Business Insider. Mines and traps have also been prominent threats in this war.”
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