- cross-posted to:
- noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
I posted this OC 8 months ago, today i see this in my YT feed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2-p2srIRLI (Ukraine Counters Fibre-Optic Drones with Lasers That Fry the Cables)
On the case of the real drone, the laser is destroying the cable.
On the OP’s case, yes a laser can interrupt the communication. But the drone needs to keep sending it, or the drone will just continue after it’s gone. On the other hand, you need less power.
unless it injects a detonation command
If you can inject commands into a communication line, somebody was really stupid while designing it.
Well those fiber optic line end points are not exactly encrypted, they use off the shelf components like HDMI over Fiber adapters, and serial over fiber for control link. In rare cases they could maybe use a actual IP connection over fiber but i doubt that since, it would add overhead, latency and make the hardware setup a lot more complex and expensive (if would be able to encrypt tho).