Web of death covers the Ukrainian fields.
Drones have become the most lethal weapons in the Russia-Ukraine war, from small user-quality quadcopters dropping bombs, up to sophisticated attack drones like the Iranian Shahed (called by Russians ‘Geran’) flying in swarms.
The inexpensive devices have all but retired the million-dollar tanks, and a technological EW race was on to find ways to jam the frequencies of the drones, disturbing the operator’s control and crashing them off-target.
That was going on for a while, until small, unjammable drones controlled by fiber-optic cables began dominating the battlefields.
They have become so integral to Russian and Ukrainian operations that they leave massive trails of cabling everywhere, turning the battlefield into a tangled web.
Business Insider reported:
“As a counter to extensive electronic warfare, fiber-optic drones are becoming increasingly prevalent on both sides. And with sprawling cables stretched across the battlefield, soldiers are moving with greater caution.
‘You see the little webs, and you never know — is it from the fiber-optic drone? Or it’s a part of a booby trap’, Khyzhak, a Ukrainian special operator who for security reasons could only be identified by his call sign (“Predator” in Ukrainian), told Business Insider. Mines and traps have also been prominent threats in this war.”
3/ These fiber-optic drones use hardwired connections through threads thinner than fishing line—able to target and blow people up in ways that can’t easily be stopped.
“In winter, the cables glint with frost,” one soldier told Kirichenko. That glint is your only warning.
pic.twitter.com/AxtB84X7Lw
— JP Lindsley | Journalist (@JPLindsley) August 6, 2025
Intensity of FPV drone use on fiber optics: a field in Donbas is covered with a web of fiber optic threads pic.twitter.com/5ZGsASFrO3
— senore_amore (@SenoreAmore) November 30, 2025
“In response [to massive EW jamming], Russia and Ukraine began developing fiber-optic FPV drones that connected to their pilots using spools of long, thin cables. The cables preserved a steady link and made the quadcopters resistant to traditional electronic warfare tactics.
The best chance that soldiers have to stop the fiber-optic drones is by shooting them out of the sky, but that requires precision, quick reaction times, and a lot of luck.”
Fiber optic drone cables near the front! pic.twitter.com/0p2cZoiwtm
— MAKS 25 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) March 19, 2025
After the missions, the cabling from the drones adorns the battlefield like some eerie fairy land.
“Soldiers can’t always tell right away if it’s a harmless fiber-optic cable or something far more dangerous, like a booby trap. This forces them to think carefully about whether they should call an engineer, destroy the web with explosives, halt, or proceed forward.”
Cars get stuck in the big amount of fiber optic wires.
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) June 7, 2025
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