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Glass is certainly better than undetonated bombs.
It’s probably plastic :(
For the range they're working with, it has to be glass. Plastic has way too much attenuation
Glass is too heavy and brittle, it’s def plastics
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250527PD215/russia-ukraine-war-ukraine-cables.html
No shit. Learn something new every day.
Still better than land mines or unexploded ordnance, sadly there are probably those in that field too.
For what purpose?
Is this some kind of tripwire movement detection system? Communications? A visual deterrent?
Not much of a war tech enthusiast; first I've seen something like this.
I read that some drones are fibre optic controlled instead of radio, as it can't be jammed. This seems like a lot to be just that though
My understanding is this is essentially a hotly fought over area, or nearby a contentious area. That's why there's so many cables going through here:all the drones that were flown past this area.
It's a lot of drones on both sides
That's exactly it. Every one of those lines was an FPV drone with a bomb. In addition to being impossible to jam, they also don't emit any signals so they're harder to detect.
Oh and you'll notice in some FPV videos that the video degrades as the drone gets closer to the target. This is generally due to signal interruption because of trees or terrain in the way. Fiber drones can fly as low as they damn well please with perfect video.
Riiight, I forgot about wire-guided missiles/torpedos. Makes sense to use a similar system for war drones.
I knew about the fiber-optic drones, I had never heard about it on missiles/torpedos.
Here goes one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-71_TOW
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