

RR transmitters can be passively triangulated. Following the wire requires someone physically following the line back.
There are a lot of counter options and I’m sure they’ve thought of many. I can think of a couple with a few minutes of thought and it’s not my life on the line.
If the line can be reeled out it can be reeled in.
They could use a smaller drone to send the end randomly elsewhere.
They could have the drone itself detach from the source and reel it towards itself before detonating.
And no one writes stories about who won the fencing match.
Wrestling takes things to a ridiculous level compared to all other performances.