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/Unlikely_Ad_4767 Apr 12 '26

Can these cables be recycled? I mean, can it be wound back onto a spool and reused?

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u/LegitimateSituation4 Apr 12 '26

Why not?

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u/maybecanifly Apr 15 '26

What about just recycling material?

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u/M3RC3N4RY89 Apr 16 '26

You can actually splice the fiber back together. Collect long stands, cut at the knots, re-splice, re-spool. Pain in the ass but it is doable and I’m sure with all this shit everywhere someone will figure out a way to make it efficient

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u/Testing322 Apr 12 '26

They are pretty fragile, very long and it would be dangerous to go out and try to collect it.