Wired drones are hard for defenders.

"Ukrainian FPV drone unspooling the fiber optic cable." (Wikipedia, Fiber optic drone)

The wired, fiber optic drones are new terrifying tools for the drone world. Those drones are impossible to jam, using standard jammer systems. There are, of course, plans to use things like laser rays to cut those drones' control wires. The other thing is that there is a possibility to use extremely high-power EMP weapons against those drones. The difference between a jammer and EMP is that the last one destroys the target's electronics. Actually, that tool is not new at all. 

"In the early 2000’s, US military research agency DARPA developed an idea for a loitering munition controlled by fiber-optic cable under the Close Combat Lethal Recon program, but it was never fielded".  Those DARPA studies were so-called theoretical research. Russian and Ukrainian military forces turned that thing into reality. 

The other way could be to use other drones to follow vehicles that travel on the terrain. The drone can try to use AI-based systems that combine image and sound detection which gives a warning to the military group that the wired drone is coming. And then they can aim things like a shotgun at those drones. 

The other way is to use laser systems that are based on technology that uses lasers to terminate 30 mosquitoes in a second. Those systems require new and more powerful lasers than mosquitoes require. The problems with shotguns and machine-shotguns which are machine guns that use shotgun ammunition are that those systems require physical ammunition. The problem is that there can be thousands of drones. Laser or microwave systems can destroy electronics in those drones. 

And that is one of the things that can protect the defender. The fact is that there is not very much to do against those small and deadly systems. The advancements of drones are very fast. Those systems can operate in many ways. The operator who uses the fiber-optic drone can use wired remote control that allows those operators to stay away from the control unit that sends control signals to the drone. The laser communication systems can also transmit data to the control unit. If that data line is protected by some wall that system is impossible to detect. 

Optical fiber and straight laser communication are hard to jam. The operative distance for those drones is about 50 km. And the thing is that there are many types of variants for those systems. The drone control unit can be in a forest and the system operator can operate the system from a distance using radio-data transmission to a radio. Then that radio can be connected to those control units using electric or optical fibers. The control can happen through the internet. 

The problem with those drones is that they cannot operate over long distances behind the combat areas. The drone strike between trains can happen simply by flying them into another train. And when operators see a target they launch drone swarms against that. The fiber-optic drones require the local operators or some other way to send signals to the drones. 

And the advancement of electronics means that sooner or later the smallest possible drones can use independent target recognition and attack. When that kind of drone gets its mission it will search and attack independently. The lasers and coherent radio waves are things that are also very hard to detect. Those systems can make things like jet fighters cooperate with drone swarms. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_optic_drone

About situation in Ukraine

7K720 Iskander missile
(NATO SS-26 "Stone")
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Vladimir Putin and the situation in Ukraine are not been very often in a stand at public media. Reason for that is there is nothing going on in that place, what is called as the Crimean peninsula. This place is in very important strategic location when we are thinking about a transportation of Caucasian oil and gas by tubes to European markets. If the Caucasian oil and gas will replace Russian products, that would mean the decrease of Russians economic and political influence. And in the real world, that means that Russia cannot cut those deliveries for having political acceptance for other actions. If the nation doesn't use Russian oil and gas, the threat would give only by the military forces. And it looks like bad in the international politics. Open threading by weapons will cause the public opinion turn against Russia.

And there have been ideas of massive United Nations peacekeeping operations in Ukraine, but the reason of Russian military power the passion for this kind of operations is much lower than in Afghanistan and Iraq. Russian nuclear force is the very frightening thing, what will make think twice, if somebody wants to operate in Ukraine with United Nations mandate. Russian interest is that situation in Ukraine will forget as fas as possible. Also, many European countries will want to normalize their relationship with Russian leaders.


If we think that the USA would come in this situation with military forces, we must say, that this scenario is very improbable, because this nation has been in the war since 2001, and that would be not very good for the reputation of that country. The prize of that war is very high, and the operation in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost more than the Second World War. Also, the losses of human lives in those wars have been very high, and the people of USA have tired about the war.


The war between the USA and Russia would be the World War III, what might mean nuclear holocaust, where the big part of the human population will be killed. This is the reason, why the solution to this problem is not able to find the military way. The problem with this crisis is that Russian military has got power to stand in that area, and those troops are highly protected by nuclear weapons, what has installed on highly mobile battlefield systems warships.


Those weapons are extremely difficult to detect, and they have the capacity to destroy the entire city. If those truck-mounted weapons would detect, they are quite easy to destroy by tactical fighters, helicopters or commando-strike. But the detection is the problem. The weapon itself can be destroyed by anti-tank weapons or bombs. If the core of the bomb will be broken, radioactive plutonium will be delivered to the ground.  But of course, nuclear weapons have the very hard defense and strikes can be shielded by the security-fire by the security team. So this makes those weapons extreme difficult targets for military forces. The system goes, that tactical nuclear weapons will be used in the first strike, and those weapons are supported by strategic nuclear weapons And if Russian conventional forces would get in trouble those weapons will be used in this kind of situation.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K720_Iskander

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