💔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
How does that work? I mean, what is the relationship between drones and the fibre? Does each drone have to have it’s own fibre or something?
Yes, they carry spools of a hollow fiber which is extra lightweight to resist radio jamming
Does that mean technically that these are all wired (as opposed to wireless) drones??
These drones are literally hardwired to the controller, the physical layer is a fibre-optic filament through which all the control actions are sent and feedback received. Commercial grade drone control over radio is vulnerable to electronic warfare of which the Russians have a suite of tools at their disposal.
I’m interested to see what kind of cleanup can eventually be done. Cleaning up these fiber “cobwebs” can’t be easy.
The whole region is unbelievable fucked. It will take decades to restore after Russia fucks off. And if it doesn’t fuck off, it will be dead forever
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Fibre optic cotton candy machines.
The Ukrainians can make the Russians eat the cotton candy when the wars over.
So shall it be written, so shall it be done.
A large enough rake
Now is the perfect time to seize the opportunity and write/film a scifi movie about alien spiders that have come to Earth and the ensuing battles against them, leaving our human cities bombed and covered in webs. Will we defeat the foreign invaders off our homeland? Or will the barbaric aliens keep our land as a beachhead to further their conquest? Analogies may apply.
Children of time is a very good book about hyper intelligent spiders. Though in the book humans come to the hyper intelligent spider planet and not the other way around.
It’s very, very good.
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.
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.
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.
If it’s under the topsoil then it’s not going to be eaten by mice or oysters.
I really think this is one of those problems where people are looking for problems to make a big deal out of, like the massive panic about plastic straws a while back. Especially in this case where it turns out the fibers are plastic to begin with.
If it’s under the topsoil then it’s not going to be eaten by mice or oysters.
That takes years.
There’s research about the dangers of microplastics. It’s not speculation. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2746
If the fibers are dense enough in a particular area, doesn’t that make that area drone proof?
How so? Wouldn’t they just fly above it laying out their own spool on the pile?
I meant a drone proof area for the people in houses under all the fibers.
Probably not fiber optic, but interesting post nonetheless
Yes it is literally fiber optic and both sides have been using it for over a year to bypass the electromagnetic warfare that jams wireless drones. The fiber drones can have ranges exceeding 40km by using an attached spool to feed the cable as it flies
Maybe you’re out of the loop?
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/fibre-optic-drones-reshape-ukraine-s-technological-war
