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

Rogue Valley · Jun 18, 2025

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.

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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 · Jun 18, 2025

We have a surfeit of shotguns we can send them.

Cosmo · Jun 18, 2025

Birdshot?

Napoleon · Jun 18, 2025

Bok Tuklo · Jun 18, 2025

Too funny.

It's like the ending of the movie Wizards.

dmpi · Jun 18, 2025

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

Questerr · Jun 18, 2025

dmpi said:
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 · Jun 18, 2025

This is New Jersey’s choice for drone elimination.

Fledermaus · Jun 18, 2025

Bok Tuklo said:
Too funny.

It's like the ending of the movie Wizards.

God I loved that movie when it came out ..

Girlpower · Jun 25, 2025

Rogue Valley said:
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

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

This war has been amazing in revealing what current battlefield techniques work and what don't.

It's showing us how warfare has evolved with technology and is absolutely fascinating but unfortunately, it's costing many lives to find that out.

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

Rogue Valley

Lead or get out of the way