💔Heavy footage that vividly demonstrates how war is changing. Now the intensity of combat actions can be determined not so much by destroyed buildings, but by the amount of optical fibre.
Pilots of the reconnaissance company of the 63rd Brigade showed what Lyman looks like now. The city is holding on, but is gradually being covered by this “cobweb”. Every day hundreds of enemy and our “birds” fly here – and each one leaves its mark🥺
🛡63rd SMBr | STEEL LIONS
It has an eerie beauty to it.
I remember seeing some photos a while back of bird nests made out of fragments of fibre optic cable, those looked pretty neat too. On the plus side, when this stuff degrades it just turns into sand. So at least there won’t be a toxic waste problem on top of everything else.
Plastic is preferred for dronesbecause it doesn’t break.
Glass is used for long runs. As glass fiber degrades you get thousands of fragments so it’s the equivalent of fiberglass. The long term effect of fiberglass exposure is pulmonary fibrosis.
https://bou.org.uk/blog-moreland-fibreoptic-drones/#%3A~%3Atext=A+fine+mess%2Cmake+them+difficult+to+recycle.
Only if the glass gets into your lungs, though. If it’s mixed with the soil it’s just sand.
Wasn’t aware they used plastic fibers. I guess that would make it lighter, too.
Fiberglass in soil is a hazard to all small animals.
https://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2024/07/02/fibreglass-particles-found-in-oysters-and-mussels/
Imagine walking barefoot over thousands of tiny syringes. Or eating a seed covered in broken glass that you are unable to wash off because you are a mouse.
Yes in the very long term it will break down. But that’s probably geologic timeframes because once the fiberglass gets under the topsoil it won’t degrade further unless the soil is disturbed.