Ukraine war: How and why Russia is using 'almost indetectable' drones
The Russians are using a new type ofdrone against the Ukrainians amid an ongoing Kursk offensive that they claim makes "electronic warfare systems powerless".
Andrei Nikitin, governor of the Novgorod region of Russia, said on his Telegram channel earlier this month that fibre-optic drones called the Prince Vandal of Novgorod (KVN) are being used at scale in the operation against the Ukrainians.
The modified first-person view (FPV) drones deploy a super lightweight fibre-optic wire behind them as they fly, which makes them "almost indetectable" to the other side’s intelligence teams, according to James Patton Rogers, executive director of the Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University.
How do these drones work?
A Ukrainian military blogger, Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov, found one of the Russian fibre-optic drones on the frontlines in March.
He described it on Telegram as a first-person view (FPV) drone with a strange plastic on top that had roughly 10.8 km worth of fibre-optic cable inside.
The fibre-optic cable is in the place where a transceiver, which receives and transmits radio signals, normally sits on other FPV drones.
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Noah Sylvia, a research analyst on emerging tech at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), said flying a drone without this transmitter means it does not emit any radio signals that can track the drone's location or its operator.
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Military probably think DRO products are fun toys to bring down amateur weekend drone pilots here in Australia though.
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