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[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 58 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Man, that's gotta be hell on any wildlife left living in the areas in which it's used. (I mean, I get the necessity, but dang)

Tillers too when this war ends (with Russia's defeat) and it's time to plant crops.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the whole war is really bad for the environment. not just locally. tanks don't run on solar. burning fuel depots, etc..

we need to stop putin and his enablers.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There’s also a good chance a lot of these areas are smattered with land mines too.

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[–] aaron 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 4 months ago

Well I mean the psychopathic and narcissistic rich bastards in charge aren't gonna feel the effects so why should they care?

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[–] RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 6 points 4 months ago

Then the crops grow, and they’re all full of microscopic glass fibre. Then the foodstuffs are shipped to the world. Then the foods are eaten and the GF joins the microplastics in our bloodstream.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It looks like spiderwebs which immediately made me think of No Doubt.

[–] BendyLemmy@sopuli.xyz 24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

So whilst the drones are super-effictive (for now) they pose several serious problems - 1. Fibres can get tangled, maybe even affecting vehicles or other machinery, cars, whatever and 2. If you can view these from the air, you can use an fpv drone to trace them back to the operator (meaning they'll need to change position more frequently and probablyclean up before returning to old positions). 3. That's gonna be a heck of a cleanup operation.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A war always is a "heck of a cleanup". These cables are by far not the worst part of it.

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 13 points 4 months ago

Given how thin those are, and how many there are it might be a waste of time to try to follow them.

[–] 0x0 7 points 4 months ago

None of your points are even remotely close to an actual problem, let alone a serious one lol

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

A drill and reel could wind up the fiber if the drone has exploded and the cable is loose. If the cable is still attached to the drone, it could send a signal to a device at the end to cut/blow up the fiber attached at the drone's end.

Guessing it's impractical as they're not doing it.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And here I thought drones were radio controlled...

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can interfere wirh radio waves, but not a fiberoptic line

[–] 0x0 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My scissor begs to differ.

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And how long are you going to survive in the no man's land, operating your scissors?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

I think I could manage a good few seconds.

[–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 16 points 4 months ago

They were, now they aren't.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Each cable can generate 80kg of fertilizer

Win-win

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 4 months ago

Presumably a corpse.

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I believe the implication is that when the Drone kills a soldier their body will fertilize the ground.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What? Why is there so much fiber optic cable?

[–] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago (3 children)

From Internet (not op):

Fiber-optic first-person-view drones areΒ jam-proof. Sending and receiving signals along millimeters-thick but miles-long optical fibers, these FPV drones are impervious to the radio interference that can ground wireless FPV drones. That doesn't mean it's impossible to defeat a fiber-optic drone.

[–] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just need sissors and a pogo stick to bring one down.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Russians can just mark their location to make it easier.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are they tethered to the operator?

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

So that's where all of the USA's fiber rollouts ended up

[–] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

The drones are fly-by-wire

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