Innovations in drone technology for military use They continue to advance at a vertiginous pace, propitiated by the Ukraine War. If we recently knew that Putin’s army was advancing in the use of drones connected by fiber opticimmune to the enemy’s electronic warfareeithernow a new Russian project with this type of UAV has been revealed: Cerberus.
The Cerberus project aims to create A platform capable of managing Between 6 and 12 unmanned aerial vehicles that remain connected to it through fiber optic cables that are deployed as they advance. Cerberus’s presentation is scheduled for August at the forum Army 2025which will be held in the Moscow region with the support of the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
This is Cerberus, the Drones Enjambres platform with fiber optics
The company KB Resanimator It is developing the project, according to the Russian news agency Izvestia. The drones will be size Very compact and will be stored in Modular compartments Within the mobile platform, which will be mounted on the chassis of a truck.
The up to 12 drones will house the first model can be launched and controlled simultaneously. This control may be manual or through artificial intelligence systems.
The AI will allow drone swarms to operate in pairs in which an UAV may take care of Intelligence, surveillance and recognitionwhile the other will execute attacks on the selected objectives. Thus, drone swarms operated by AI could be used to attack aircraft, launch thermal loads and reinforce air defense with an additional layer of protection.
Cerberus will work as a basis for these UAV, providing A storage point, recharge and a command center. The integration of AI will make the system even more efficient, allowing a strategy to ‘shoot and forget’ -when the drone is directed autonomously towards its objective without the need for the operator to intervene -, with manual control only in case of deviations from the planned objectives.
Drones with fiber optic cable
Fiber optic drones have begun to be used by Russia in response to electronic warfare techniques used by Ukraine. His great advantage is that The interference of the radiocommunications signals resist by using a fiber optic cableTo transmit and receive data. An example is drone ‘Nóvgorod Vandal Prince‘, recently announced by Russia and developed by the Ushkuynik scientific and production center In Nóvgorod, which can achieve an objective and destroy it without being affected by radio signal locks.
The counterpart of this type of drones is that they have a more limited rangesince it depends on the length of the fiber optic cable, which can reach up to 20 kilometers. In addition, it requires a more complicated logistics, With land personnel to attend the deployment and manage the cables.
Ukraine is also working on this line and plans to display a UAV with optical fiber in the future. However, the ability to control dwarfs through fiber optics on the battlefield gives Russia advantage in the use of these drones.