This new Ukrainian detector can 'see' what a Russian drone can — and its new fiber-optic drones can also 'hear' enemy soldiers from 30 meters away
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Battlefield tools that mirror and tap into adversary drone feeds — and add acoustic sensing at 30 meters — show how fast ISR is becoming a software- and sensor-fusion problem, not just a hardware race. Early signal for dual-use: commercial security, critical infrastructure, and border monitoring will be pressured to match this level of perception and counter-perception.
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