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pjc50 on Feb 17, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar dro...

Ukraine and Russia are apparently building drones with fiber-optic tethers to defeat this. Like the old wire-guided missiles.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraines-drone-makers-produc...

alashow on Feb 17, 2025 | [–]

I wonder why spool of fiber optic cable is on the drone vs with the operator..

pbmonster on Feb 17, 2025 | | [–]

Drag and fibre tension.

In the former case, you have close to zero for both. In the latter, you're dragging 2km of line behind a small aircraft, risking the line getting snagged by something on the ground.

iugtmkbdfil834 on Feb 17, 2025 | [–]

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