Servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces spoke about the fight against fiber-optic UAVs in Kupyansk

In the Kupyansk area, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are actively using fiber-optic drones. On Friday, December 26, servicemen of the 121st Motorized Rifle regiment of the Zapad group of forces told Izvestia about ways to combat aerial threats.

"All the fighters we talked to told us that in case of a collision with a drone, there is already a definite plan: where to hide, where to run, how to maneuver. Any shelter can be used to save your life," said Stanislav Grigoriev, a correspondent for Izvestia.

If a raid by enemy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) finds fighters in the forest, even trees can act as one of the shelters, the branches of which prevent the drone from flying at close range. Also, the fiber-optic cable following the drone may become entangled in the tree, which will lead to its collapse. So, each air surveillance post has a whole dump of downed enemy FPV drones.

Military personnel may also try to cut the fiber-optic cable of an enemy UAV on their own.

"I also have a [hook-] cat lying over there. For optical fiber. When is it (the drone. — Ed.) flies, hook the line and throw it with a rope. pull up to yourself and also have a snack," said a soldier with the call sign Leningrad.

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The massive introduction of autonomous combat systems suggests that these technologies have reached a new level.

Earlier, on December 25, in the city of Gulyai-Pole in the Zaporizhia region, underground bunkers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were discovered and destroyed, said the governor of the region, Yevgeny Balitsky. The enemy had been building concrete fortifications deep underground for several years, carefully laying communications.

On December 18, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Russian Armed Forces were reliably controlling all areas of the liberated Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region, as well as adjacent settlements and forest belts.

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