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Couple of dumb thoughts:

- Can another drone grab the fiber and walk back to your base?

- Can you use the fiber to a master drone which acts as a repeater/controller for normal RF drones? Yes you can still jam them, but with the tx/rx closer to the action you need a more effective jammer.

- How much power can these types of fiber optic cable carry? A couple watts max? Yes I know that's not what the intent is I'm just curious if you could use it that way.

- On the one hand glass isn't the worst thing we could be dumping into the environment but damn that sounds like some wicked splinters... Sure, war is never kind to the environment. Just saying...



> Can another drone grab the fiber and walk back to your base?

Can not grab, it will get caught by branch trees and debris. The launch site is not where operators are located, most often it is well hidden, somewhat protected and hundreds of meters away.

> Can you use the fiber to a master drone which acts as a repeater/controller for normal RF drones?

Battery is the bottleneck, master drone has to stay long enough in the air for all drone to hit their targets.

> How much power can these types of fiber optic cable carry?

can't use it that way.


fiber optic is glass and doesn't conduct electricity...


Power over fiber is absolutely a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-over-fiber




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