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15 January 2025

Amazon And Alibaba Are Selling Gear That Makes Rogue Drones Tougher To Take Down

Jeremy Bogaisky
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On the Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba’s online shopping platform, with a couple of clicks, Americans and Europeans can order one of the latest deadly innovations from the battlefields of Ukraine: fiber-optic control equipment that makes drones impervious to electronic jamming or remote takeover.

That’s a worrying development for domestic law enforcement agencies, which rely on those methods to deal with rogue drones that fly near airports or stadiums.

For under $300, an armchair shopper on Aliexpress can buy all the gear needed for a pilot to control a drone using a spiderweb-thin fiber-optic wire rather than radio signals. The main element: a cylinder that will pay out as much as 18 miles of cable as the drone flies. Suitable fiber-optic cabling can also be bought in bulk on Amazon, without the necessary spool to load it on a drone.

“If you want to start your own air force, you can order everything you need off of Amazon and Alibaba,” said Troy Smothers, cofounder of a U.S. volunteer group called Drone Reaper that’s developed an affordable fiber-optic control system for Ukrainian drones. “It's right there — we did it.”

Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM(Retd) at 00:25

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Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM(Retd)
B.E, M Tech, M Sc (Defence Studies), M Phil, MMS, taken part in CI Ops in Valley, Assam and Punjab. Worked in EW, SIGINT, Cyber, IT and Comn field. Wide experience in Command, Staff and Instructor appointments. Has been Senior Directing Staff (Army) in National Defence College. Published a large number of papers in peer reviewed journals on contemporary issues. He delivers talk in Seminar, Panel Discussion and workshops regularly. He has interests in Cyber, SIGINT, Electronic Warfare, Technology and CI/CT Ops.
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