The devices were first seen in experimental form last year and their use has swiftly multiplied, reportedly playing a key role in Russia’s defence against a Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region last week, with soldiers forced to try to shoot them down with shotguns.
Ukraine’s defence ministry expressed concern in a statement earlier this month that also announced tests of their own cable drones. “The enemy continues to increase its capabilities in the use of drone control technologies via fibre optics, so it is extremely necessary to level its advantages,” the release stated.
The innovation could allow one side to break the deadlock at a time when both have mastered the use of existing drones and deployed them in vast numbers across the front, as well as electronic warfare countermeasures, suggests Colonel Markus Reisner, who studies Russia’s armed forces at the Theresian Military Academy in Austria.
Many existing drone models have become increasingly vulnerable to electronic jamming (Photo: Pablo Miranzo/Getty)
The technology has already proven its value in battle and both sides are racing to develop cable models, said Samuel Bendett, a drone researcher at the Centre for a New American Security think tank.
The new drones are likely to play a growing role in the war, Bendett believes, although he predicts they will be used in concert with existing models rather than replacing them.
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Read MoreMykola Bielieskov, a Ukrainian military analyst at the government-run National Institute for Strategic Studies, said the new drones are also effective in targeting enemy personnel and equipment, but the wire-based system can be disrupted by “natural and artificial obstacles.”
“Russia has been a leader in this for some time. But we are racing to catch up and soon we will,” he said.
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