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Defeating the Unseen: Countering Fiber-Optic Drone Operations

How to Detect, Track, and Defeat sUAS That Don’t Transmit

If your counter-UAS strategy assumes a wireless link, it’s already obsolete. Fiber-optic-controlled drones bypass RF detection, ignore jamming, and operate silently in GNSS- and EMCON-denied environments. These systems don’t break the kill chain — they never enter it. This course delivers the new playbook for countering fiber-optic drone threats, replacing outdated RF assumptions with physical, visual, and effects-based approaches that work against drones that don’t transmit.

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 The RF Assumption Is No Longer Valid

Fiber-optic-controlled sUAS represent the most disruptive shift in the counter-UAS threat landscape in over a decade.

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By replacing RF command-and-control links with physical fiber cables, these platforms eliminate the emissions that most detection and mitigation systems rely on. RF sensors see nothing. Jammers have no effect. Traditional electronic warfare fails silently — not because it’s broken, but because the threat no longer operates in the electromagnetic spectrum

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Course Overview

Defeating the Unseen: Countering Fiber-Optic Drone Operations prepares military, law enforcement, and security professionals to operate effectively in this new reality.

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This course reframes fiber-optic drones as a command, detection, and defeat problem, not a technology anomaly. Participants learn how these systems work, why legacy C-UAS architectures fail against them, and what must replace RF-centric kill chains. Instruction focuses on physical and environmental signatures, tether detection and defeat, platform interception, launch-site analysis, and operator interdiction.

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Rather than promoting a single sensor or solution, the course provides doctrine-level clarity — how to redesign detection stacks, decision frameworks, and operational responses for drones that do not emit, comply, or cooperate.

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This is not future-threat speculation. Fiber-optic drones are already in use in contested environments and urban terrain. Organizations that do not adapt will discover the gap only when it matters most.

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WHAT MAKES THIS COURSE DIFFERENT

  • Focused exclusively on non-RF, fiber-optic drone threats

  • Addresses detection, defeat, and decision-making — not vendor demos

  • Built around physical-effects and real-world operational constraints

  • Integrates intelligence, operations, and command-level decision logic

  • Designed by practitioners, not product marketers

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Course Details

WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR

  • Military and defense organizations

  • Law enforcement tactical units and C-UAS teams

  • Homeland security and force protection elements

  • Critical infrastructure and site security leaders

  • Intelligence, ISR, and mission planners

  • Emergency managers responsible for complex environments

Learning Outcomes

WHAT PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN

Participants will be able to:

  • Explain how fiber-optic-controlled drones operate

  • Identify where RF-based C-UAS architectures fail

  • Recognize physical and environmental indicators of tethered drones

  • Apply non-RF detection and tracking approaches

  • Adapt investigative workflows when telemetry is absent

  • Make faster, higher-confidence decisions in denied environments

Course Format

  • 90–120 minute executive or professional briefing

  • High-impact overview for leaders and planners

  • Available virtually or in person

Pricing & Fee Recommendations

These ranges reflect national-security training norms and the rarity of credible fiber-optic drone expertise.

Executive / Professional Briefing (90–120 min)

$6,500

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