The RF Armed Forces have successfully conducted field tests of a new laser gun capable of destroying UAVs

The photo is illustrative.

At one of the military training grounds of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the latest laser gun was successfully tested. It is reported by RIA News with reference to an informed source.

According to the source of the news agency, the laser gun is designed to destroy unmanned aerial vehicles. In the process of testing at a military training ground, the gun showed high efficiency. She destroyed several unmanned vehicles of various types in the near zone.

Laser destroyed drones both aircraft and quadcopter type

- quotes RIA News a source of information.

With the help of an infrared combat laser, the aerodynamic surfaces of the vehicles were burned or the body of the vehicles was burned along with everything on board. drones equipment.

It is known that many countries of the world are now trying to develop tactical laser suppression and destruction systems. One of the main tasks of these lasers is the destruction of drones and loitering ammunition in the air in the near zone. In the United States, for example, a prototype ADAM combat laser system has already been developed, designed to destroy air targets at a distance of 2 kilometers.

Another similar complex is HEL MD on a truck chassis. Its range is also 1,5-2 kilometers.

Now Russia has taken care of the creation and development of such laser systems, and the experience of conducting a special military operation, including the advice and recommendations of the servicemen themselves, will play an important role in further developments.

Comments

[Rumata]

Critical: Irradiation time required to destroy the UAV. Specially trained people write that the UAV can protect itself with the help of mirrors.

[Felix]

Will you also cover the optics with mirrors? And the screws are mirrored? If so, this design will be visible from kilometers away, which will simplify destruction with more traditional weapons than a laser.

[Shurik70]

By the way, yes.
Peresvet was successfully introduced in 2017.
In theory, on CBO it can be perfectly run in practice.
But here is something not a word about him.

[glk63]

Apparently, this is not what it is intended for ... How to shoot sparrows from a cannon)

[Boa kaa]

Quote: Shurik70

Peresvet was successfully introduced in 2017.
In theory, on CBO it can be perfectly run in practice.

But nothing that PERESVET is designed to protect the OS (ICBM positions). And its main task is to burn the OLS and IR / UV seeker of attacking APs, as well as to disable the sensors of the spacecraft, the same Kh-37V ... reconnaissance satellites such as KN-11, etc. And what does the "rifle" cabal of units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation-SVU have to do with it ???

[Boa kaa]

Quote: Rumata

The UAV can protect itself with the help of mirrors.

Well, yes, yes ...
You would also write about the crystal breakthrough tank ... for plausibility.

[V. Salama]

Quote: Rumata

Critical: Irradiation time, ... The UAV can protect itself with the help of mirrors.

Most likely, the transparency of the atmosphere (weather conditions) will be critical, but UAVs are not effective in such conditions. The irradiation time hardly matters - a short energy pulse on the irradiated surface leads to the evaporation of the substance of the irradiated surface and to a high-explosive (explosive) effect of the resulting vapors on the irradiated object. Considering the relatively weak strength of the UAV structure, this will lead to its mechanical destruction even without

burning the aerodynamic surfaces of the vehicles or burning the hull of the vehicles together with all the equipment on board the drones.

Protecting UAVs with the help of mirrors still has the status of a problem, but I think no one denies the dialectic here.

[Thrifty]

In less than two years, it dawned on someone that from drones we are losing both equipment and people ... There is only one question left - will the laser go to the troops, or are they still waiting for trials for 5 years? Will it fall into a list for T14, Kurganets, Boomerang, the Coalition of the SV, and other piece crafts that will never appear in the army in large numbers ???

[megadeth]

The SV coalition seems to have gone into production, they said that they would refine it in the process, based on the experience of use in the SVO.

[Thrifty]

meqadeth - so did Armata, "like" how it fought, not for long, though, but the main thing is to be noted by the presence, we have a lot of things there, unfortunately ...

[URAL72]

What troops, what equipment? This is a very large apparatus with a very small range of destruction in order to put it on the front line. But it is needed for rear military and civilian facilities. Where mortars and artillery cannot reach him.

[AUL]

Shaw, again ?!
I remember that a couple of years ago they already created it, it seems they even accepted it into service! The whole country came up with a name for him - like, Peresvet. Or is it new? Where is the old one then?

[Emperor_Alive]

According to The Space Review[en], as of 2020, Peresvets are available at the bases of the following military formations[10]:

14th Rocket Division (Yoshkar-Ola)
35th Missile Division (ZATO Siberian Altai Territory)
39th Guards Rocket Division (Novosibirsk)
54th Guards Rocket Division (Teikovo, Ivanovo Region)

It appears to be a strategic weapon. If so, then there is a need for tactical.
If not for the advanced, then for the protection of airfields from drones it would be nice to have a small complex that works automatically.
A little better.

[Starover_Z]

Quote from AUL

Shaw, again ?!
I remember that a couple of years ago they already created it, it seems they even accepted it into service! The whole country came up with a name for him - like, Peresvet. Or is it new? Where is the old one then?

Okay, it can hit by burning, but what about searching and detecting targets? Now there are a lot of drones and small ones too. One will fly up with a grenade to destroy the means of detection, and then, because of the hillock, several other forests, more serious to destroy the installation itself.
How in that case, without caps for tossing?

[Siberian 66]

A chassis larger than a quadric is now critical. Too noticeable and quickly destroyed. So it's all lab toys for now. And of course the name "laser gun" smiled. Journalists one word. Then it would be called a blaster. But they didn't read the classics...

[Svetlana]

Dv do not care what they called. You understand what it's about.

While the product has not been given an official name, journalists and everyone who produces content will call the unit for everyone.

[Human_manoid]

Engineer Garin had already tested his "hyperboloid" for a long time, and these are still being developed))) and it was only the size of a chest. And they are still experimenting. Shame and disgrace - ruined the whole of science - now they are reaping the fruits of this. It was necessary to develop the defense industry earlier, and not cut the budget.

[Wolfskin1993]

Then "HYPERBOLOID"!

[Mikhail Maslov]

Normal. In the US, a laser installation destroys UAVs and is included in the SORAD complex, both for Strykers and for Bradleys and light armored vehicles. The question is how and with what to detect these mini UAVs?

[BedMax]

And how to generate energy for all this)

[Jafar]

And how to generate energy for all this)

Well, there power is about 10 kW. With a relatively high efficiency of semiconductor lasers, the necessary energy can be provided by a small generator, well, or a set of batteries and supercapacitors with a generator from the APU or the main engine

[Svetlana]

Wow!! Revolutionary and new, that's always five!

[Arkadich]

And what about Peresvet? Is this a new development or a reincarnation of Peresvet?

[Two]

And the dimensions of the product, how mobile it is with the power plant, that's the main thing for me, otherwise it will be the size of a Kamaz and next to it the same radar, a target for HIMARS. Ideally, it should be on the Tiger together with the radar and be mobile. For its operation, a small radar is needed to detect drones, do we have it or not.

[URAL72]

Answering you, I will answer several comments at once. Russia, like many NATO countries, signed some kind of paper about non-humane weapons. You see, a laser can deprive a sniper or an ATGM gunner of sight, for example ... Therefore, the Chinese tank has a laser that should counteract optical detection and guidance systems, but we don’t have it in the west either. I have not heard that this is already being put on a striker or Bradley. If so, then it's time for us to spit on these agreements. Such a laser does not require much energy, but it will easily destroy the optics of the UAV

[Two]

What kind of paper about non-humane weapons, the MI AC HPD F2 mine in Ukraine is used like cluster munitions, all these paper signatures are not worth anything.

[dump22]

In the United States, for example, a prototype ADAM combat laser system has already been developed, designed to destroy air targets at a distance of 2 kilometers.

Yes, Lockheed Martin showed an ADAM prototype back in 2012.
Her 10 kilowatt laser destroyed a target 2 km (1,2 mi) away.
In this case, the target flew strictly in a straight line and the laser was focused on the target for several seconds continuously.

Only with such parameters and at such a distance, not high-energy lasers, but the most ordinary machine guns, work much more efficiently.

[alexoff]

Lasers that shoot down missiles and shells have been demonstrated every 5-10 years for probably 60 years, and then all the same, the iron dome sends missiles

[Sith]

Quote: Mikhail Maslov

Normal. In the US, a laser installation destroys UAVs and is included in the SORAD complex, both for Strykers and for Bradleys and light armored vehicles. The question is how and with what to detect these mini UAVs?

OLS - an optical location station with a vision system connected to it ... most likely in several spectra

[Ripap]

Our most pain is not the destruction of UAVs, but their detection. Airplanes are small, piston engines, radio-transparent body made of composite materials, low flight altitude. Bottom line: they fly across half the country to Moscow as to their home. What to do? I am not a great specialist, but we need a complex system of posts, modern complexes that can search in the optical and sound spectra. No other options come to mind. You need to think something, in my opinion, you can’t rely on one radar in the fight against such UAVs.

[Mike77]

Isn't it all the same to hit? First you need to discover. I wrote without reading the comments.

[zimagor]

finally! I still remember the respected Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko, being the governor of St. Petersburg, she was going to use lasers to knock icicles off the roofs of houses. Oh yes, even then they decided that the name "icicles" does not sound very serious and was replaced with "icicles". And now lasers have seriously evolved. Happy news!

[Eugene Zaboy]

The question, apparently, is not so much in the laser, but rather in the power source. Although, everything is interconnected, of course.