"Destroys drones and quadcopters": The Russian Federation has declared the creation of a laser gun

The laser gun demonstrated high efficiency in the UAV in the near area," the agency's interlocutor said. According to the source of the agency, the infrared laser physically struck drones, in particular, by burning aerodynamic surfaces of the apparatus or setting their buildings together with onboard equipment. During the trials with the help of new weapons allegedly "destroyed drones of both aircraft and quadcopter type.

" It is unclear how much such information can be trusted from "Russian sources", but indeed, the military pay special attention to the development of laser systems. For example, the US Department of Defense has actively developed lasers and powerful microwaves for missile defense from the very beginning of Ronald Reagan's defensive initiative 40 years ago.

In recent years, there has been a spike in interest, which later faded through the imperfection of technologies, but now technologies are being improved and "it gives stunning results", they say in the Pentagon. "We have constantly conducted research, studied combat effects and conducted experiments. But we think that, finally, we are beginning to see some real progress," - said Laura Desimun, director of the Anti -Catering Defense Agency (MDA).

The US Defense Defense has already allocated more than $ 2 million Lockheed Martin to study how a weapons of directional energy can be integrated with the current agency systems that rely on kinetic ballistic interception, and in the future - hypersonic, missiles. The study should be completed next month. Earlier, Focus wrote that Chinese scientists have declared the creation of an "endless" combat laser.