Ukrainian drone footage of 6 pointed star

[brasco]

my theory about it potentially being a trailing fibre optic cable with some damage,

I think I can abandon that idea, the FPV pilot on Reddit did a good job explaining that this is footage from the goggles, so there are extra links to add noise/interference, which I don't think we'd see if it was a fibre optic drone?

 

[Harabeck]

I think I can abandon that idea, the FPV pilot on Reddit did a good job explaining that this is footage from the goggles, so there are extra links to add noise/interference, which I don't think we'd see if it was a fibre optic drone?

I haven't flown at those ranges, but the interference in the video is familiar to me from my quads with analog video transmitters. I think you're right that a fiber link would not have them.