Combat Turns Into Battlefield Crochet as Fiber-Optic Drones Leave Wire Tangos

KEY POINTS

•By mid-2025, Ukraine and Russia increasingly deployed fiber-optic drones to avoid radio-frequency jamming.
•Khyzhak, a special operator in Ukraine's 4th Ranger Regiment, reported cables tangled everywhere during combat near Donetsk.
•Russian fiber-optic drones now fly ranges up to 50 kilometers, surpassing typical 10-25 km limits due to cable length.
•Soldiers use protective netting over roads to reduce drone strikes, but identifying cables versus booby traps remains a tactical challenge.

In the not-so-glamorous tech war of 2025 Ukraine, fiber-optic drones, not your typical wireless flyers, are tangled everywhere like bad Christmas lights. On July 3, amid the Donetsk Region near Kostiantynivka, the 28th mechanized brigade tested drones with RPG warheads while cables tripped over trees, fields, and even Ukrainian soldiers' guns. No more jamming the drone signal with radios—now it is a fiber cable fiesta stretching up to 50 kilometers as Russia and Ukraine flood battlefields with these techno-spiders. Ukrainian operator 'Predator' admits they can't tell cables from booby traps, making stealth missions a moving weave of cautious stepping. Trying to shoot these wires out of the sky demands sniper luck and eagle reflexes, while roads are covered in netting to fend off surprise cable strikes—because nothing says modern war like a spaghetti maze of fiber optics ending in explosions.

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Mockingbird News

@MockingbirdNews · now

War's latest tactic: turning battlefields into invisible wire obstacle courses. Welcome to the fiber-optic stitch-up where stepping wrong means kaboom or just a very bad ankle sprain.

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