Ukraine’s 'Madyar’s Birds' Take Down Russia’s 'Invulnerable' Drones"
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Ukraine just intercepted a Russian fiber-optic-controlled FPV drone for the first time.
On January 30, 2025, Ukraine’s 414th Strike UAV Battalion, known as 'Madyar’s Birds', successfully detected and destroyed a Russian fiber-optic drone-a system once believed to be unstoppable. Using mobile radar technology, Ukrainian forces are now able to identify, track, and intercept these drones before they reach their targets.
In this video, we cover:
How Ukraine’s mobile radar detected and intercepted the drone
Why Russia’s fiber-optic FPV drones were considered invulnerable
What radar system Ukraine may have used
How this could change drone warfare on the front lines
dramatically increase detection rates, ok, but that makes for more high value targets close to the frontline
Yes. Even deploying this radar, assuming it is identifiable, draws attention to whatever it is meant to protect.
Too costly. The radars are highly vulnerable.
Not to mention they can’t afford it
Hmmm…. Maybe a ‘zip line’ drone that attaches to the fiber optic cable and follows it back to the operator…
You know the cable is lying on the ground after deployed out the back of the drone. There's no "zip line."
And it’s likely tangled over all sorts of obstacles like stuck in trees, branches, debris from buildings.
Been with drone people in Ukraine and they are very inventive and quick to respone.
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Russians are very inovative and knowledgeable with drones, and they are superior in number.
@@peterh.1521 That is because russians get hit by 100's of Ukrainian drones every day.Now russia has fiber optic donkeys.
The Ukrainians have been brilliantly "Improvising and adapting what's available" from the very start! 🇺🇦
That's why they've been so successful with what little they have.
Yeah, real successful.
Brilliant observation, John Doe.
You're a credit to the Doe family.
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@@boriszhitkov2277 How did you manage to find your way onto youtube? You escaped your government censorship, and yet you still try to defend them. You must be a f00l or a bot.
So was the goat of Kiev. 🤣🤣 So exactly how many drones have been taken out compared to the number that landed successfully? The usual 110% right?
I use to develop weapon systems for the US, and I just wrote an idea on a drone advancement, and RUclips deleted it.
Anyone can read these comments, so you would be advising the other side as well.
Wrong venue! Submit to Ukraine intelligence.
Hmm. Maybe it was deleted so others don’t use the same idea?
Like, ideas on the internet can be used by both sides.
@@Jprid how does someone submit to Ukraine intelligence ?
Do you suggest the entire Ukraine war is some sort of game and one side simply waiting for both sides dying for no reason at all.
Them as well claim that AI itself found 40 000 ways to kill humans. Let it sink in how unimportant we are.
Ukrainians are very very very intelligent, determined, and from the once I know (quite a few, mostly women) they are open, smart, and did I say determined and independent? It bears saying again. Their determination is for kindness, honor, and goodness in my experience.
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Imagine how many of these radars with a range of 2-3 kilometers they need for the whole frontline.
Gepard have 15km radar bubble , double 35 mm cannon and are highly mobile.Ukraine got over 100 of the German anti air armored Gepards.
Thank you. This is another example how innovative Ukrainians are.
They shot one down, there’s absolutely no proof they used radar to track this drone, it’s more likely they just got lucky or surely they would be able to post multiple videos?
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@@MartinHewing-k7n It doesn`t take a lot of intelligence to realise they aren't going to tell how they tracked it st*p*d that would be aiding the orcs
This is why fascist russia is so desperate to absorb the Ukranians: they're simply better.
@@MartinHewing-k7n exactly, i dont think its possible to detect such small drone using radar.
The war is over.
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No chance, zelensky is a child murderer and trafficking humans and organs, Ukraine is about to be wiped out, ya muppet.!!
Excellent! Only one observation, though. Yes, fiber is jam-proof as far as blocking its reception of radio instructions from the pilot. However, there are 2 possible technologies that could work. I found a couple of recently published papers on the subject involving High Powered Microwaves (HPM) using a generator at 2.4 GHz, a 1 KW power supply, and a conical horn to focus the energy at the drone. The second technique is by using a HPM generator, 2.45 GHz, w/ a high-voltage transformer, some electronics to control power output, a magnetron, & a conical horn to focus. This system will use the HPM & amplify the signal into a powerful, directed electromagnetic pulse, essentially, an EMP which will fry any electronics, regardless of the fiber.
microwaves and EMP can fry the circuits so you get drones wrapped in foil and hardened circuits, but the weapons give off a brief detectable trace making the user subject to conventional weaponry. both sides have had microwave zappers for the past two years but they don't appear the winner they claimed to be unless just locating mavic surveillance units.
there's a reason both sides are making bird shot rounds for the AK.
the west meanwhile is suffering what they claimed china was unable to 15 years ago - innovate, china now leads in 64 out of 65 technical fields.while the US leads in 6 or 7. which applies across the board. Globalising and corporate buyouts of the competition has made western arms manufacture much much weaker than it was in the 60s
The downside is how close you have to be and Ukraine drowns can follow the cables back to them.
Range of such contraption is very low. You need a whole power grid to power it.
useless im afraid
Microwave weapons are way more complicated then you're indicating; the cone you're talking about is effective but only at close ranges, ranges so close you'd already be dead. you need considerable energy, beam forming capabilities, and other advanced tricks found in radar\wifi systems. It's totally possible but if it were simple we'd already have good anti-drone radio weapons.
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another media win for the AFU, now, find out how to retrieve those lost ukranian territories.
It looks like the fiber optic drones are using a long and thin cable that has no outer insulation. It makes it look almost like a simple fishing line. I wonder if this means the signals **can** actually be jammed or even overwhelmed and the drones controlled by a new signal. Fiber optic cables almost always use infrared laser light (perhaps that means these lines would be visible at night with infrared cameras) so they could direct a much stronger infrared light beam at the drones and thus their cabling and essentially "jam" the optical photodetector onboard the drone. Maybe even very strong infrared lights that blast light omnidirectionally could be developed like a jammer if using the correct wavelength(s). At night you would basically be a massive infrarered target beacon, but during the day it could be very useful to jam these drones. I dunno, it just seems interesting, hopefully they are looking into it.
My guy, stay in your field please.
Fibre optic cables are made of several different layers, they have total internal reflectance due to the high refractive index of the core compared to the low refractive index of the cladding around the core, then there is another layer around the cladding to protect it from damage, it would be almost impossible to scramble the digital signal travelling in the core with an external light source shone on the cable, although a powerful laser could be used to damage or cut the cable.
Would there be any way of tracking the fibre optic ground station? Following the thin cable.
Yeah I bet they never thought of any of that before. Call Ukraine and tell them what you've found.
In theory yes but it's fiction today.
Electronics are not travel inside the cable but on the outside of the cable. The thin of the wire doesn't matter.
The craven action by my country to stop aid to Ukraine is beyond sickening. It makes me wish UA had not given up its "big bang" weapons, since we turned our backs on defending them.
they never had any big bang weapons.that was agreed in budapest but they were always russias warheads. but cling to your myth if you want, they were never and still aren't western allies - we just want to steal their stuff (the Donbass has gas fields the eu is desperate for which is why they pushed the coup because they didn't want to pay market prices, the US wants cheap minerals now china is stopping the supply - the US has those minerals but it costs a lot of money to create the means to extract them ).
Ukraine was never a place or country or people just a region on the borders it was a project to steal big parts of russia from the 1600s the language was invented by four polish professors in 1890s Those claiming to be pure blood Ukrainians are in fact polish galicians who are hated by everyone due to their habit of killing their neighbours to please western european powers. 150,000 rusyans in ww1 and around 12 million Russians, poles, jews, hungarians, roma etc.. in ww2. as a race they need to be expunged but then the last Nazi rally was held in the US in nov 1941 anf they embraced tens of thousands post war, which is probably why the US refuses all accountability for the 25m civilian deaths on its hands since ww2
if they had kept nuclear weapons they would have sold them or simply not afforded the maintenance after the west destroyed their economy on purpose in the 90s.
weapons need to be refurbished constantly they cannot just sit there. in most big weapons the tritium or other ium boosters used to increase the yield degrades and you get a fizzle.
the US does have the fissiles from those weapons though as each carries a signature from the reactor it was born in and has probably made a dirty false flag weapon to use when appropriate - unfortunately russia has not played ball and is not doing big arrow moves or trying to take the whole state which was the original western plan to turn ukraine into iraq and give Russsia a forever war
NATO thinks it can invade Russia from the baltics in 2027, but Russia will simply take the baltics back as per their independence agreements, and NATO cannot as well as will not fight. the pentagon has been planning the demise of NATO for twenty years based on a 2030-50 timeline. Ukraine has knocked thirty years off western hegemony and now they are going to enter the post empirical poverty stage as their debts catch up with them.
you can support ukraine yourself, but why you need to force the whole country to support ukraine.
there is people in your country who prefer to spent their taxes on their own country needs.
@@kguehini Ah, a student of history I see. Look up "myopia" in the dictionary, then consider what damage it can do. Oh, there's also the matter of a treaty that was signed that obligated the US to defend UA, but we chose to diminish it. But why am I bothering, people like you can't be educated...
@ what does history have to do with my comment?
and i suggest that you look up the term "democracy" in the dictionary. since its clear that you dont understand that concept.
and education has nothing to do with our conversation, the correct term is logical thinking , which i see you lack and btw this is what really cant be fixed.
i mean someone with low IQ cant do anything to change that diagnoses.
what does history have to do with my comment?
and i suggest that you look up the term "democracy" in the dictionary. since its clear that you dont understand that concept.
and education has nothing to do with our conversation, the correct term is logical thinking , which i see you lack and btw this is what really cant be fixed.
i mean someone with low IQ cant do anything to change that diagnoses.
All they need now is 300-400 radars 😂😂
The problem is when they find methods of overcoming things such as these wire guided drones and other Russian weapons the Ukrainians shouldn't let there methods be know they should keep them secret.
War always help to innovate faster in every area which take decades in normal time
Radars can be targeted by artillery and missiles.
and drones with fiber optics :)
And these drones collide with each other? Or has the Ukrainian drone a cable cutter or torch on board?
WOW how exciting!!! Thank you for allowing US ALL TO FEEL THAT WE ARE ON THE "FRONT LINE" WITH OUR UKRAINAIN BROTHERS!!!
They seem to be striking challenger 2(without cage) in the kursk and several other vechiles over the past 3 day's. You would think this op, would be a main op for any drone evasion
If one uses the drone to cut the cable, it can then go after more drones.
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Next: Ukraine develop scissor mounted drones to cut the cable
Europe...ramp up military spending to 5% of GDP and then give 30% of that military equipment to Ukraine on a yearly basis.
...and if your economy is failing due to EU policies, GET OUT OF THE EU ,,,,,Problem FIXED !!
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Where are the fiber optic cables manufactured?
The tech has been around for a few decades and is not complicated. So could be anyone.
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I’m a Trump supporter but I will be highly disappointed if he doesn’t continue to help Ukraine. What the Ukraine military has done with so little is amazing. How could you not respect and not want to support these soldiers. America stands with Ukraine.
I'm not a Trump Support for many reasons including what you just stated.
Too many Americans do not stand with Ukraine. The moment Musk was involved in the campaign, it was clear Trump would dump Ukraine. You didn't care. So it's on you.
He will stop all aid. He is a traitor. Putin's boy . Too obvious.
you consider 300 billion dollars of aid so little?????
do they cover the 1000 km front no they dont do they.....
this is sending classified info to Russia.
Please don't spread misinformation because this being "classified" is not true. Russia's tethered drones being intercepted by Ukrainian drones with the help of radars was already known by Russians. When we hear about this it's old news to the enemy that is literally observing these things as they happen on the battlefield. Just because you and I didn't know about it, it doesn't mean Russia didn't already know about it.
Because of course RuZZia had a "Prince Vandal."
it might sound wacky, but could a drone with a long trail of string like a jellyfish be used to destroy these drones?
basically fly near it and tangle its props in the strings.
perhaps these strings could be pulled free from the jellyfish drone when they get tangled in the RPG drones props so the jellyfish drone can be reused.
Absolutely
Why would the cable drum be on the drone rather than at the station?
Maybe a drone that's covered with razors to slash the fiber- it also could be fiber optics to avoid RF jamming. Get on it Ukrainians!
Next: Russia develop fiber-optic stealth drone
So this is the new wonder weapon that will finally change the course of the conflict... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Guess this is good news for the company working on anti-drone drones.
It'd be really crazy to have a drone with some type of quick connect so if it's able to hook the fiber optic cable, cut the line while simultaneously plugging into it. Then fly it right back to them.
You are insane to think that would work at all.
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Try something around 2 MHz but pump the power up. This will interfere in the drones IC hardware rather than trying to jam the carrier frequencies between 2 to 6 GHz which will only cloud the reception of the drone.
Take care, Mark.
When this over, Ukraine will become the leader in modern military technology and Russia will be the leader in online adult entertainment.
What happened to Russia's electronic warfare? They are so weak that they react with minimal range grenades on a wire? What comes next they throw the RPG grenade?
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Would it be better to deploy some kind of line cutter to cut the Fibre? Theoretically it would keep the drone in tact
Space is a very big place. On the ground things maybe look 2 dimensional
@@robertagren9360 I think Shane's point is find the drone with radar. Send up a drone with a fiber optic cutter rather than sacrificing your drone.
@@davidtebera4488 just wise up
Nato has few left , Russia has not defeated.
Fiber optic drones are still slow quad rotors. Very small, autonomous drone-hunting loitering munitions like Anduril's Roadrunner will eat these for lunch in the future, and I'm sure Ukraine will invent their own version soon.
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The problem is that radars are detectable
True but they are low power and mobile.
Doesn't every computer transmit radio waves? Maybe they are lying about radar, and just "listening", as long as the Russians don't put their drone CPU in metal casing?
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those radar units are sitting ducks
What about trailing a cutting wire like a traditional minesweeper. Surely the cable is the weakest link.
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All this interception of fibre-optic drones sounds nice on paper, but the fact is, that Ukraine is on it's last legs, with most of its soldiers defecting / deserting their positions, so stopping some fibre-optic drones wouldn't really make much difference in the scheme of things. The Russians would just use other systems - and with the supply of US arms stopped, and the cash-strapped European Union not able to contribute much in the way of useful weapons, Ukraine really doesn't have too many options left.
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Ukraine is not using modern weapons like donkeys and Chinese golf carts.
Hate your switch hitting attitude telling russians how to improve anything is morally treasonous. To hell with reporting as do the cowardly networks do.
I wonder if at some point we shall see drone teams where 2 or more drones go out on an intercept. Half the flight takes the fiber optic drone down while the other half hunts down the opposite drone team. They know they and in the close area so, I just wonder if this a possible evolution in tactics and counter drone operations.
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More Radars mean more wild weasels mission with FPV drones
How to avoid making multiple radars an obvious radiating target then ?
Then later next year = we gone full circle back to stealth and destroying radars.
Radars every 2-4km across a thousand km long front line is extremely expensive… If the range can't be improved, it might prove cost-prohibitive. You might laugh at that and say that losing lives and equipment is even more expensive, and you'd be right. But money is the limiting factor for everything, and you also need to buy weapon systems, ammo, supplies, everything. I don't think there's a single army in the world that can afford everything that it wants, not even the US military. I wish the defenders all the success in the world. God knows they deserve it. These are tough choices and tough trade-offs that have to be made...
Gepards have a 15km bubble and Ukraine has a hundred of them. By the way their twin cannons shredders any amount of drones
If this is true, we shouldn´t see any more Ukrainian tanks, mine clearer, building, soldiers, communication antenas, or anything else being hit by Russia drone, right? Right...
The cable looks like it can be tracked back to the base
Lol 🤡, tracking a cable on the battlefield, you deserve a Darwin award
It be like trying to find fishrod wire in the wilds. It be faster to have a satellite tracking the drones but no, no. That can't be real.
Ukraine is being absolutely terrorised by these drones at the front.
There's gotta be a lot of thin cable all around ukraine.Because that cable, it's all over the place
So when will Ukraine will lower the draft age to stick it to Putin. 18 is good according to US politicians.
Microphones network on parked drones, for fat noisy optic drones detection?
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Fishing with drones???
That just sounds stupid.
Why they called them Hungarians?
Tethered drone, no thanks. The fiber optic cables never go back into the box without a big hassle.
All the radars will be destroyed trying to catch these drones.
Ukraine will lose both radars and personel.
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"Ukraine" in the captions should be also written in quotes
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Of course that's the lesson ... do the best you can with what you've got.
Can't hope for better than that~? (Clue: NO! You can't ...)
I don’t think for 1 second that there will be a full radar coverage of the front line with the number of radars available, however a good operator with a certain radar could pick up the drones at a lot greater distance than you think ! Ukraine shouldn’t deploy their Radars closer than drone range anyway.
Do wait for another invention from Russia, and being tested on Ukrainian soil and people... Then, again, do wait for another invention from West, and being tested on Ukrainian soil and people... And the loop goes on with only Ukrainian soil and people as testing site for new inventions from both the sides
and the radars can be taken out for anti-radar missiles like the US HARM
HARM travels at MACH 2.9
the Russian one travels at MACH 3.6
Radar every 2 km? They cant survive
I’m hardly convinced by one lucky interception both sides get lucky intercepting drones as there are both completing in the same airspace and obviously there are plenty of videos like this. Even if was true this would only be good for defending fixed targets an offensive force like we have seen this week is completely defenceless.
They send a radio drone, so the Russian fiber drone will have on board jamming, so within 100meteres the drone loses sight and control, take the L.
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Another Ukr wonder weapon or just a new Russian target?
We wonder 100 times the 10 day operation has passed and all Russia got are fields and lakes
Can Ukraine add a microwave radar (sized to proportion and weight) to a drone and thereby decrease the size and increase the mobility of a radar needed to detect these drones on a leash?
Good. They spotted and intercepted a $500 drone using radar. Which is most likely worth tens of thousands of dollars or more. Ok. Don't radars glow like a Christmas tree? Isn 't radar radiation something that is detected by other radars almost instantly?even if the jammers are calling in artillery.....
and probably spot all the drones, not just wired. and the birds.... good luck. But we all know what it is just a cap
Ukraine 🇺🇦 is losing men, weapons, trump said no more money…low resources. Time to give up.
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Its just drone , dji made home made . Any drone racer can fabricate . Best counter ? Smoke
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What's the likelihood that an interceptor drone could be fitted with some sort of passive cable cutter? Some sort of blade hanging out the bottom, some weighted piano wire, something that resembles a large seat belt cutter, etc. Maybe even as crazy as metal rotor blades strong enough to cut the cable without taking damage or a spinning cutter powered by a motor?
These wouldn't be as reliable, I'm sure, but for lower threats they could avoid the sacrifice of their own drone and some explosives. Being cut off from the cable should make the target drones drop like rocks to the ground and detonate harmlessly. It could be a cost saving measure, especially with Russia being larger and having more resources to waste in attrition.
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