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Mike Rounds: “The next step on the line and what many of them use right…”

Featuring: Mike Rounds, Republican | U.S. Senate South Dakota

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Rounds Questions Witnesses at a Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 03:56

So you can move to a different frequency, perhaps you can change from frequency to frequency, and you can become advanced in doing that. But at some stage of the game, the adversary has already figured out how to stop that. So The next step on the line and what many of them use right now, is a fiber optic line. Can you talk a little bit about what's happening in that regard? Yes, sir. We, in fact, tested fiber optic drones at Fort Benning last week. (03:56–04:00)

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Asserts that fiber optic lines are currently used as an advancement in drone communication technology.

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