FPV drones are deadly tools in the Ukrainian war. The Russian-developed optical drone is a fiber controlled which makes it immune to regular ECM systems. The control transmission travels through optical fibers, allowing the drone to operate in heavy jamming environments. Thin optical fiber makes it possible for a drone can operate 20-30 kilometers away from the operator. Dropping drones with regular ECM is not possible. So they can beat any jamming.
But things like higher-power radio and microwave systems that burn those drone’s electrics can be the answer. The fiber-controlled drone is theoretically easy to destroy if somebody finds the control fiber and cuts it. If the defender finds the fiber normal scissors would be enough to cut the fiber. And one answer for that deadly problem can be a drone that is equipped with wire cutters.
But the real answer can be the laser system that engineers can mount to cars and other vehicles. The laser ray can cut the optical fiber quite easily. The industrial laser can just grope the drone and its environment. And if the optical fiber is cut the control signals cannot reach the drone. The laser system can include lidar and weapon systems, or modes. When the system is in a surveillance model, it uses a large cone. And when the system cuts those optical fibers and destroys drones it uses the cutting laser beam.
There is a theoretical possibility that if the opponent system can search and locate the command wire benefiting the light that is leaked from that fiber, that system can follow the optical fiber using a light amplifier. That leaked light can make it possible for the counter system to send drones to locate the operators or the drone support station where the optical signal has its origin. But that requires quite expensive tools. And the optical fiber must also leak light.
Drones are a good example of how the improved weapon faces an improved defender. In early war large-size drones that were like remote-controlled combat aircraft ruled the battlefield. But the R&D work brought smaller, and cheaper FPV-kamikaze drones to the battlefield. The ECM, or electronic countermeasure signals made those drones useless. And the remote-control systems are easy targets for artillery that can locate them using their radio signals. The ECM can cut those signals easily.
So the answer was the wire-controlled drones that were and are immune against ECM. The new solution could be a laser weapon that cuts those command wires. The next step is the independently operating drones that can search and attack targets independently. Those drones are tools that are cheap. And cheap prices make their advance fast. Drones along with the AI will revolutionize warfare. AI is cheap to use. If the algorithm is well done, operators must only load necessary programs to them.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_weapon
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