"Ukrainian military officers who talked to Business Insider about this tactic said Russian pilots are targeting key logistics roads near the front lines with fiber-optic drones immune to electronic warfare countermeasures, making the deadly weapons extremely difficult to stop. They said the attacks are interfering with the movement of troops and supplies."
"Artem, an officer in Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps who requested to be identified only by his first name for security reasons, said that Russia has increasingly been flying fiber-optic drones to logistics routes, landing them on the side of the road, waiting until an armored vehicle passes by, and then staging an ambush."
"Fiber-optic drones are cheap, first-person-view (FPV) drones that can cost as little as just a few hundred dollars and be equipped with a small explosive payload of a few pounds. Unlike normal FPV drones, which are controlled by radio frequency signals, fiber-optic drones are connected to their operators by long, thin cables that preserve the connection and allow the drone to resist electronic warfare and jamming."
Russian forces deploy cable-tethered fiber-optic FPV drones to lie in wait along logistics roads and ambush passing military vehicles. Pilots land drones at road edges and trigger small explosive payloads when armored vehicles pass. The physical fiber-optic link preserves operator control and makes the drones resistant to electronic warfare and jamming. The tactic has turned previously safer routes into kill zones, caused losses of soldiers and vehicles, and occurs weekly near front-line logistics corridors. The method resembles roadside IEDs but adds mobility and remote hunting capability via uncrewed systems.
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