Ukraine Counters Fibre-Optic Drones with Lasers That Fry the Cables

Hello everyone. So I have a pretty

interesting but short video for you

here. So Ukraine has found a way to

disable Russia's fiber optic drones.

This video is actually shared by the

Russians and it shows Ukraine using a

laser light beam mounted on the drone to

thrive the fiber optic cable on a

Russian waiter drone causing the signal

to cut out. A Twitter user dead cats

explained it a bit more clearly. So he

said if you watch more closely you can

see the gas and the pitch both increase

on the drone's hood display showing that

the operators tried to move away at the

time. He also said the Ukrainian drone

flies along a road with a laser beam

that pretty much burns out any fiber

optic cables lying across it cutting to

the connection to the drone itself. So

Ukraine didn't know that this specific

drone was here. They weren't slot

targeting this one deliberately. They're

just blitzing the laser equipped drone

along a key supply road with a drone

with a laser just in case any fiber

optic drones were here lying an ambush.

I assume that this is a main supply line

for Ukraine. And perhaps this drone is

moving ahead of the convoy to try and

bust any drones waiting before the

convoy actually arrive. It's a quite an

interesting video. Fiber optic drones

have been a bit of a pain for both

Ukraine and Russia since early last year

when they started being used more often

because they can't be jammed by

electronic warfare equipment which makes

them more dangerous. Both sides heavily

use them and has had a lot of success

doing so and both sides struggle to deal

with them. They're much more dangerous

than the bog standard FPV drones. Now

this Russian drone here is described as

a waiter drone which doesn't mean it's

going to hand you a cheese platter and a

bottle of wine. It's basically a drone

that waits in ambush. Ukraine and Russia

both use this tactic. It's basically

just parking the drone in a key area and

when something comes by, they lift off

and try and bomb it, lift off and then

target the vehicle in order to carry the

ambush. It's a tactic that works as they

often catch the target vehicles by

surprise. Both Ukraine and Russia have

had a lot of success doing it. No

location was given for this one, so this

video is a bit short, but as a bruisy

bonus. Here's a nice clip shared from

their pop ros showing Ukraine ambushing

a Russian supply truck with a drone.

This is a key supply road in the area,

and you can see the drone dive in and

hit the truck. The truck initially seems

to survive, but if you watch closely

towards the end, it does grind to a halt

near the bridge. So either this was a

bit of a delayed disabling here, the

engine coning out a few seconds later,

or the crew are injured and this truck

needed to stop. I think the former as

the driver seems to keep his head here

and only stop the truck when they get

under the bridge which provides a bit of

safety. So it seems like he was in full

control of the vehicle at the time. So

that's it for this video. Not much else

to discuss here, just a short one, but

one which is worth taking a look out

for. I hope you found the video

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