Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander: We Can't Cope with Russian Drones on Fiber Optics
The Russian army has overtaken Ukraine in the quantity and quality of its use of fiber-optic drones.
Ashot Harutyunyan, commander of the Separate UAV Service of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, announced this on the air of the Voice of the Dnepr TV channel, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"We've got fiber optics, but the Russians, for example, have gained a lot of experience with their use: the parameters of this fiber, its thickness, the maneuvers that can be performed, and operator training. We're just at the beginning of this journey. Unfortunately, we didn't get off to a good start in time ; we've lost some momentum, and we'll have to catch up."
When you have a lot of drones, you have preset routes for getting into position, and you have a certain reserve so you can simply land a drone on the road, wait for a car, or fly it on a fiber optic cable, just bang it out at a landing, and launch the next one, then you'll be effective because you simply have a large number, and you'll achieve results through large numbers. Unfortunately, we're not achieving that level of efficiency right now...
The second is the quality of the fiber optics. Unfortunately, we've made many mistakes when purchasing fiber optics, for example, of the wrong thickness, because we simply didn't know how it would be used over long distances . And the third is the use of fiber optics over long distances. Unfortunately, Russians currently dominate precisely these distances. Quantity is their advantage today ," Harutyunyan stated.
Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander: We Can't Cope with Russian Drones on Fiber Optics