The researchers’ Gornergletscher field site in the Swiss Alps. Left is the glacier and right is their field camp, where the fibre optic interrogator was housed in a tent.

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The Ukrainian military once believed drones that communicate with their operators via fibre-optic links would not be necessary on the battlefield. However, that perspective has shifted with the ...