22-05-2025, 10:25 PM
Russia’s fiber-optic drones took out four HIMARS—now Ukraine’s engineers are fighting back. Russia’s top drone unit is destroying Ukraine’s most valuable launchers. Engineers are scrambling to respond. A Ukrainian HIMARS rocket launcher was recently destroyed just 10 kilometers from the front line near Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast. The precision strike, captured on video, shows the US-supplied system traveling on a dirt road before being hit by a Russian drone operated by Rubicon—an elite unmanned aerial unit. What makes this attack significant is the technology used: a first-person view (FPV) drone guided by a fiber-optic cable, making it largely resistant to Ukraine’s electronic jamming.