Cable cutters

In cultures like Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan, kite fighting (known as gudiparan bazi or similar) is a longstanding tradition where participants coat their kite strings with abrasive materials like crushed glass to slice through opponents' lines during aerial battles. This turns simple kite flying into a competitive sport of maneuvering and cutting.

Apply the same principle to modern drone warfare: Equip defensive drones with long, trailing lines made of ultra-strong, abrasive-coated filaments (e.g., carbon fiber embedded with diamond dust or ceramic particles). These "fighter drones" would be piloted or autonomously maneuvered to intersect the path of enemy fiber-controlled attack drones—those tethered by thin optic cables for power and secure control. By dragging the abrasive line across the enemy's tether, it would snag, grind, and sever the fiber, hopefully causing the attack drone to lose control and crash.

Profitable use could be made of the tactics used in kite fighting. Alternatively in heavily jammed areas patterns could be autonomously flown by several patrolling drones, flying back and forth, high and low to make sure no cable-guided drones on either side could use the air space.