Drone Warfare Makes Defence Spending Look Absurd

Drone warfare makes defence spending look absurd

Nato powers say they will sharply increase their military spending to 5 per cent of GDP, but few have thought seriously about the complications of modern warfare, which has become even more dangerous in recent years.Politicians and the public are convinced that spending more money on weaponry automatically raises an army’s effectiveness on the battlefield, though recent wars in Ukraine and the Middle East tell a contrary story.In 2023, the US se…

Unjammable fiber-optic drones are taking over and turning Ukrainian forests into spiderwebs of wires, video shows

So many fiber-optic drones are being used in Ukraine, they're covering the battlefield in their wires.NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA new video shows a forest in Ukraine covered in fiber-optic cables for unjammable drones.These drones have become an increasingly prolific countermeasure to electronic warfare.The hard wire ensures a stable connection between an operator and a drone even amid jamming.A new video shows how prolific jamming-resis…

Warfare in Ukraine has changed… again

The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell explains a new modification of the standard first-person view (FPV) drone that already once transformed the way war is fought. Fiber optic cable now used to connect drone operators to FPVs ensures a perfect image and control experience all the way to the target — and cannot be spotted by enemy drone detectors.Unlike many of the full-scale war’s most effective innovations, fiber optic drones were first intro…