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A new video shows a forest in Ukraine, which is covered with fiber -optical cables for non -jammable drones.
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These drones have become an increasingly productive countermeasure against electronic warfare.
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The hard wire ensures a stable connection between an operator and a drone, which is even in the middle of Jamming.
A new video shows how productive jamming -resistant fiber optical drones become on the battlefields in Ukraine. Wires are scattered everywhere.
On Friday, the Department of Defense to Ukraine shared a video from the 63rd mechanized brigade by Serebryansky forests, which were taken over with fiber cables.
“Imagine how many drones fly here,” wrote.
This is how the Serebryansky forest now looks completely covered with optical fibers of drones.
Imagine how many such drones fly here.
📹: 63. Mechanized brigade pic.twitter.com/tv08f471iz
– Defense of Ukraine (@defencece) June 27, 2025
Glass-fiber-optical drones that are connected to operators over a long, thin fiber-optical cable cannot be disturbed by electronic war tactics that design the signal connection as such as drones based on radio frequencies.
In the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine of Ukraine, lumps from wires can be seen on the tree seesaw. The lines are reflective, and in some places in the video the sunlight flashes from them and shows networks throughout the forest.
Some areas of the forest are packed with tons of wire, which indicates that many fiber -optical drones have followed them while others are scattered. From the video it is immediately clear that there was significant fiber -optical drone activity in the region.
The Serebryansky forest is a large nature reserve in Luhansk Oblast. It is located southeast of Kharkiv and north of Bakhmut.
There were other videos like this as well as photos of cables that stretch over battlefields.
This new video shows the growing use of fiber -optical drones on both sides of the war. Last year, Russia stopped these fixed systems for the first time as a countermeasure against persistent electronic warfare on the battlefield, with Russia and Ukraine, and prevent the operators from communicating with them.
Electronic warfare had a serious influence on regular drones, has a negative impact on strike and surveillance missions and forces combat innovations.
Ukraine then started using it. At that time it was unclear whether fiber-optical drones were only a temporary solution that would be counted up to something better, as was the case with like AI-capable drones that would serve as a potential long-term solution.
These drones, which have become clearly more productive, are more useful for short -distance operations that are normally more open. In forested areas, they can be hung more easily in the trees.
At the beginning of this year, a Ukrainian special drone unit Business Insider announced that it had not yet seen a widespread introduction of fiber-optical drones in combat, but in the past few months these drone systems have had an increasing presence on the battlefield.
Due to the constant threat of these non -jamble drones, Ukraine introduced countermeasures such as shotguns as a kinetic answer and shooting the drones when they come close to the staff. The shotgun is currently the best defensive option.
While countermeasures are in progress, she also develops and uses her own fiber -optical drones and continues to use them. The country’s larger drone industry has been booming since the beginning of the war three years ago. Many drone developers work closely with Kyiv’s military on adaptations and new hardware and software.
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