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The city of Lyman is now covered with thousands of kilometers of fiber optic cable from FPV drones.
(files.catbox.moe)
💔Heavy footage that vividly demonstrates how war is changing. Now the intensity of combat actions can be determined not so much by destroyed buildings, but by the amount of optical fibre.
Pilots of the reconnaissance company of the 63rd Brigade showed what Lyman looks like now. The city is holding on, but is gradually being covered by this "cobweb". Every day hundreds of enemy and our "birds" fly here – and each one leaves its mark🥺
🛡63rd SMBr | STEEL LIONS
How does that work? I mean, what is the relationship between drones and the fibre? Does each drone have to have it's own fibre or something?
Yes, they carry spools of a hollow fiber which is extra lightweight to resist radio jamming
Does that mean technically that these are all wired (as opposed to wireless) drones??
These drones are literally hardwired to the controller, the physical layer is a fibre-optic filament through which all the control actions are sent and feedback received. Commercial grade drone control over radio is vulnerable to electronic warfare of which the Russians have a suite of tools at their disposal.