Fiber-optic drones weave spiderweb barriers in Ukraine war
On the 19th, a video released by the Ukrainian military showed white lines resembling spiderwebs covering an entire village in eastern Ukraine. This scene was created by thin fiber-optic...
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To counter fiber-optic drones, as of 2025, Ukrainian soldiers deploy lines of stretched barbed wire, with a battery-driven motor that makes the barbed wire rotate around its axis. This has the effect of entangling and breaking the thin fiber-optic wire laid on the ground by fiber-optic drones along their flight path.
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