Fiber-optic cables have typically been used for smaller quadcopters. Now, the practice is being extended to larger fixed-wing drones.

Last year, fiber-optic drones emerged as a game-changing technology in the Russia-Ukraine War. By transmitting data through fiber-optic cables, these drones are immune to the electronic warfare ...

Fiber-optic drones have carried Ukraine’s battlefield lesson into southern Lebanon, and the message for every soldier under a jammer’s false comfort is simple: the sky has found a new way in.

For a few years now, and particularly since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, conventional wisdom has said that the future of warfare is swarms of cheap drones with explosives ...

Russia is using fiber-optic cables to control some of its larger, fixed-wing strike drones, making them effectively immune to the electronic warfare interference that dominates the battlefield, a top ...