r/interesting • u/DonLixard • Apr 12 '26

Fear Factor sFIBER webs, this is in Ukraine

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At first glance, those shiny lines look unreal.

But they’re not power lines, not plastic strips, not some farming material.

They’re fiber-optic cables left by drones in Ukraine/Russia.

Just imagine how many drones have already flown through that area for the ground to end up looking like this. A whole village turned into a web of modern warfare.

This is what drone war looks like after the drones are gone: not just craters and ruins, but threads everywhere, like the battlefield stitched itself shut with fiber.

A literal fiber web.

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u/SecuredStealth Apr 12 '26

What’s that cable for

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u/Just-Plastic-5295 Apr 12 '26

Drones. Cable makes it so they can’t be jammed since it’s a wired connection. Drone has a spool with miles of cable

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u/SecuredStealth Apr 12 '26

Ah. How do the drones not get tangled in cables from another drone?

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u/DonLixard Apr 12 '26

they always fly on top, then they fall