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Are you implying Ukraine left Kurst because of fiber optic drones? Because I can assure you, that's got nothing to do with it.

I can also assure you that Ukraine using fiber topic, semi and fully autonomous drones with great effectiveness against the invaders.

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It had a lot to do with it. Kursk was a heavily forested area where the Ukrainians largely had small troop deployments hiding under tree cover where fiber optic drones would hunt them down.

There are thousands of videos of this in Kursk alone.

Ukraine are able to set up "shielded corridors" to protect critical supply roads from fiber optic drone attack behind the front lines in the donbass but in kursk they were exposed and defenseless.

I’m not implying that but it was one of the first places where they used it extensively.

Fiber optic is just an adaptation. The war has been full of them. The logical end step seems to be autonomy. There is nothing special about fiber optic, it’s just a way to avoid EW.

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