Posted on 03/08/2024 1:30:13 PM PST by hardspunned
According to a Telegram channel (@serhii_flash), the Russian military has begun deploying FPV (First Person View) drones equipped with coils of fiber optic cables, marking a significant advancement in drone communication technologies. The Ukrainian military has encountered one of these unusual drones, which had a 10-kilometer length of fiber optic cable unspooled during flight.
This cable control method offers a crucial advantage on the battlefield as these drones exhibit a unique resistance to electronic interference, making their neutralization extremely difficult, if not impossible, with current methods. The constant and uninterrupted video signal provided by the fiber optic cable allows for high-quality image transmission, thereby increasing the precision and effectiveness of strikes. Additionally, this technology eliminates the "radio horizon" phenomenon, which can cause a loss of connection in the drone's final meters of flight.
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You can get single mode optical fiber with a diameter of 8 µm. That’s in the range of a 1:5 or 1:6 scale representation of a human hair.
Aramid fibers are floppy and are easily obtained in 10-20 micron, and relatively cheap.
Communist China sells such technologies as they see fit.
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“FLAMING LEFTIST” here!
You are wrong. Russia is at least 20 years behind in tech, vs the “west”, across almost all categories. This case is a clever workaround and reuse of old tech, namely long range wire guidance spools for helicopter launched atgms. The tradeoff is weight/drag and range.
We’ve had wire guided munitions for years... Nothing unusual here. Fiberoptic guidance is just the next step.
Tough Shiite, it’s working, as shown by Russian progress on the battlefield.
Moral of the story: Sometimes going back to the past is better than Glitzy High-Tech Crap that’s no more reliable than a Tesla.
The Israelis have been selling fiberoptic guided missiles since 2004.
The technology has been around for a good while. An essentially "tethered" drone has its own vulnerability problems.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just use quantum entanglement for secure communications? ;-)
This is old tech, already in use since the 1960s and continuously improved since. It was at one time the primary control link for atgms.
I suspect this case is a reuse of a helicopter mounted atgm component. There isnt much scope for helicopter launched atgms of this type in the current state of this war, with the KA52s primary atgm using laser guidance, not wires.
Everything “works”, even good old machineguns and mortars. The question is how much any specific bit matters. The Russians had and have a general material superiority over the Ukrainians. The Ukrainians have a general tech superiority (since about mid-2022).
“The Ukrainians have a general tech superiority (since about mid-2022).”
I’m not sure that Bradley Square or Abrams Avenue support that theory. They’re getting DESTROYED.
Teslas are quite reliable within their design parameters. They are not good where you don’t have a good charging infrastructure or where you have to deal with blizzards. They are otherwise very nice cars. Go try one.
I just recently rode (in Asia) in a luxury class BYD Denza N7, made in China. Very nice. That is going to be heavy competition.
“Teslas are quite reliable within their design parameters.”
Kind of like Neocon ‘proving grounds’ for Western weapons (dry ground, perfect weather, etc).
Too funny, I swear you must be a TROLL here!
Everything is vulnerable to mines + artillery.
The US and Europe have supplied insufficient means to clear mines or destroy artillery fast enough to permit an advance by the small numbers of western supplied armored vehicles.
We are talking about under 100 “modern” tanks and maybe 200 modern UFVs.
And those models supplied to Ukraine are over thirty years old.
Whatever, perhaps we shouldn’t have started the Ukraine War if we didn’t have enough hardware to send to Ukraine, while still being capable of meeting our other commitments.
Regardless, the Butcher of Kiev was fired on Tuesday, so I suspect that this Neocon Nightmare will be over soon.
The “neocon” term is wrong. That is about political policy, at best.
What you should be talking about are military professionals. The western way of war is an integrated system of air and ground attack.
1. Obtain air supremacy.
2. Hunt down enemy battlefield assets (SAMs, radars, jammers, artillery, command&communications, ammo dumps)
3. Isolate the battlefield (interdiction) by destroying chokepoints in the road and rail networks, and hunt down vehicle traffic.
4. Break through fixed defenses with demining operations and precision attack on strongpoints.
5. Exploit through gaps and go as deep as possible until resistance is again encountered. At this time hopefully one will be under a condition of mobile battle. Critical here will be sustainment of the advance, with sufficient logistics assets and reserves.
Ukraine has never been given the means to do 1-2 above, and insufficient means for 3-5. Its been given some short ranged ground based substitutes for air attack, but very insufficient. By western standards Ukraine has been fighting on a shoestring.
No “whatever”. One needs to get into the weeds to have a valid opinion.
The US and Europe (but especially the US) have sufficient hardware to give Ukraine. Whats been lacking is political will.
The other big US commitment is confronting China. Thats an entirely different suite of military assets.
And Russia started the Ukraine war, or wars. For them it was definitely a war of choice, a policy option. It all began, if you will recall, through a Russian attempt to override the popular will, in Ukraine, to join the EU (not NATO).
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A drone is powerful enough to drag around SIX MILES of fiber and have some useful battery life? Hard to believe.
It’s an extension of a TOW missile. Wire guided.
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