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At the same time, fibre-optic drones have being successfully fielded by Russia and now increasingly by Ukraine. Immune to jamming with a minimum range of 10km.

There is no way these technologies won't be at least trialled for mil use, not when electronic warfare is employed to this degree.

https://thedefensepost.com/2025/01/08/ukraine-fiber-optic-dr...




There is also some very recent advances to laser communication, which explains the increased interest: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-023-01201-7




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