Ukrainian military learn to fly drones with bombs attached at a special school on May 12, 2023 in Lviv region Ukraine.
Ukrainian military personnel learn to fly drones with bombs attached at a special school in May 2023 in the Lviv region of Ukraine.
  • Russia's fiber-optic drones are the newest adaptation to preventing signal jamming and electronic warfare.
  • But the wired drones bring their own complications, and they may only be useful in certain situations.
  • The drone arms race continues to push both Russia and Ukraine to develop and counter new capabilities at speed.

Russia's using newer drones guided by fiber-optic cables that make them immune to the kind of signal jamming and electronic warfare that's plagued both sides' use of unmanned systems.