The drones The dynamics of war conflicts have changed, something that can be checked day by day Ukraine. Not only because of the enormous variety of unmanned systems that participate in one side and the other, but for the development of methods to stop them. Beyond the electronic war systems that interfere with their communications, there are other more basic ones. A few months after the war began, Anti -Didish cages in tanks and other military vehicles began to proliferate; to the point that they have gone from being an impromptu solution to A new standard manufactured in series. And these cages have joined a more striking solution and, expects Russia, more effective: display on anti -cell mesh tunnel roads that protect the Russian units.
This is what Russian soldiers have done on the road that unites Bakhmut with Chasiv Yar In the region of Donetskin East of Ukraine. Throughout 2 kilometersthey have installed a tunnel of mesh or antidron network that protects their advance towards Chasiv Yar.
‘To cover the supply routes of the Russian Armed Forces in front of the FPV drones, military engineers are installing protection networks. Our group maintains more than two kilometers of antidron networks. These networks are placed in the most exposed roads of the roads to guarantee the safe movement of our team. We strive to continually expand the coverage area, improving the installation technology of the networks to do so faster, ‘explains a Russian soldier in a video published in social media in which the construction of the tunnel is seen.
To protect themselves from Ukrainian Drone Attacks, The Russians have fenced off the road from Bakhmut to Chasiv Yar, Creating A 2-KM Mesh Tunnel. In This Way, The Russians are trying to rescue their equipment and personnel from Threats from drones. pic.twitter.com/qbtfvwracx
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The network unfolds supporting it in posts between 4.6 and 6.1 meters high, uniformly spaced to the sides of the road. The objective is that drone propellers become entangled in the mesh and that, in the case of breaking it, divert their course, according to The Warzone.
Previously, Russia has tried to protect some roads by installing electronic warfares along them. However, ‘Drones operate at so many frequencies that it is not realistic to block them with electronic warfare. In addition, drones with artificial intelligence and drones have appeared with fiber optic cables’, the Ukrainian drone expert said in Telegram Serhii Beskrestnovabout the construction of this mesh tunnel.
It is not the first time that Russia has used networks to protect its communication routes, but had not built a complete ‘tunnel’. In 2023, On a road near Bakhmut a succession of anti -Didish networks were installed, lying between street lamps and crossing the roadat a height that allowed the passage of vehicles, every few meters. This system did not have side meshes and It was not too much problem for Ukrainian operators to fly over their drones and continue attacking goals.
⚡️This Morning There Was A Video With Anti-Drone Nets Hanging Wagner Abeve The Road Near Bakhmut, and Already In The Evening A Video Testing Their Effectiveness 😉 pic.twitter.com/egxvbfsrj1
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A problem that presents the tunnel is that also Confina to Russian forces in a very narrow corridor that can be bombarded with artilleryleaving few escape options, which would finally cause more victims than any drone attack.
Another is that Ukraine attacks the posts that support it and demolish them, so that Russian soldiers They are trapped under the mesh and exposed to enemy drones. Without going so far, also a FPV drone could be Distance detonated to open a hole where other Ukraine drones penetrated to carry out an attack.