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Ok, I'll bite, what is a 'fibre-optic' drone?
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Instead of radio waves they have a spool of wire. Prevents jammers from jamming the drones using electromagnetic waves.
Unclear on the specific specs of the drones Hezbollah uses, but the distance seems to be in the ballpark of 3-20 miles.
Pic of the drum that holds the spool. It literally just unspools km after km of hair thin optical fiber as it flies around. The added weight does limit range.
Kinda crazy you can fit 20km of wire in a container that size but I'm always surprised when i cut 4 heads of cabbage and it's enough to feed 50 people, volume be crazy