The Ukrainian soldier's best chance against Russia's advanced unjammable drones is as low-tech as it gets

[Rogue Valley]

The Ukrainian soldier's best chance against Russia's advanced unjammable drones is as low-tech as it gets

Ukraine is fighting against Rusisa's advanced fiber-optic drones that can't be jammed, and soliders have to use old-fashioned weaponry to stop them.

www.businessinsider.com

6.16.25
The best chance front-line Ukrainian soldiers have against Russia's unjammable drones is less than ideal. Short on options for fighting these drones, soldiers rely on low-tech shotguns to survive. Fiber-optic drones that can't be stopped or thrown off course by jamming and other forms of electronic warfare are becoming increasingly prolific in this war, and bringing one down requires physically shooting it down. Dimko Zhluktenko, a drone operator with Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, said his unit always has a 12-gauge shotgun with them as standard protocol on every mission for this reason. When it comes to fiber-optic drones, he has been trained and told by other soldiers that a shotgun is "the most reliable way to shoot down a drone if it's using the fiber optic" cables. Even with regular drones that can be stopped with electronic warfare, success isn't always guaranteed. If electronic warfare doesn't work, "then the last resort that you have is the shotgun." There is a "drone with explosives flying into you, and you can't jam it," Zhluktenko said. "So, you shoot it down."

The Ukrainians say a low-tech shotgun is the best way to neutralize the new fiber-optic drones.

 

[Loulit01]

We have a surfeit of shotguns we can send them.

 

[Cosmo]

Birdshot?

 

[Napoleon]

Lol.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

Too funny.

It's like the ending of the movie Wizards.

 

[dmpi]

A shotgun might be good for 40 yards and the drone might explode when hit. Not the safest situation.

 

[Questerr]

A shotgun might be good for 40 yards and the drone might explode when hit. Not the safest situation.

Any drone small enough to be taken down with a shotgun isn’t going to be carrying a very big payload.

 

[NJBob]

This is New Jersey’s choice for drone elimination.

 

[Fledermaus]

Too funny.

It's like the ending of the movie Wizards.

God I loved that movie when it came out ..