Fighters of the Center group told about the use of new UAVs in combat

Soldiers of the Center group of forces showed new drones controlled via a fiber-optic channel, and also spoke about the success of their use in the Gorlovka area of the special military operation zone. This was announced on March 6 by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

"We perform a wide range of tasks using fiber-optic drones. Starting from the destruction of enemy manpower, the destruction of buildings and fortified structures, machine-gun emplacements... We are also actively destroying equipment," said the head of the Unmanned aerial Vehicles (UAV) service Vladimir Solodovnikov.

The military department stressed that FPV drones, which are controlled via a fiber-optic channel, are unique in that they are virtually invulnerable to electronic suppression of the enemy. A fiber-optic cable stretches from a coil attached to the bottom of the impact drone to avoid contact with the propellers.

"More emphasis is placed on optical fiber, because with its advent we have increased the scope of work. First of all, because not a single EW of the enemy can already affect us. And, of course, the distance, that is, we fly out for huge long distances," said Nikita Oropov, head of the UAV calculation.

The length of the fiber-optic thread used, depending on the specific model, can reach 20 km, the Ministry of Defense emphasized.

"I'm working on airplane-type FPV drones now. We hit the equipment, disrupt the enemy's rotation. Last night, I literally found the enemy's equipment along the highway, it was a pickup truck, and I worked on it by plane. With the destruction, respectively," said Maxim Bessonov, head of the calculation of the aircraft—type UAV.

During the liberation of the village of Dzerzhinsk in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the military personnel of the unmanned aerial vehicles of the Center group of forces for the first time massively used attack drones controlled via a fiber-optic channel, the Ministry of Defense said.

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The Russian Ministry of Defense on March 4 It published footage of the combat work of the units of the North group of forces, which liberated the village of Pogrebki in the Kursk region during the offensive. On February 27, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed the combat work of the FPV drone operators of the Rubicon Advanced Unmanned Technology Testing Center, who href="https://iz.ru/1845872/2025-02-27/minoborony-pokazalo-kadry-porazheniia-tekhniki-vsu-dronami-v-kurskom-prigraniche"> They hit military equipment and fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk border area.