Russia has claimed to be using optical maser arm in its intrusion of Ukraine , guide President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to compare the res publica to Nazis during the buttocks end of World War II .
Deputy quality minister in tutelage of military development in Russia , Yury Borisov , enunciate at a conference on Wednesday that a optical maser arm called Peresvet was already up and run , being deploy in Ukraine . It is claimed that a monotone had been burned from 5 kilometers ( 3.1 miles ) off in five secondsin a test on Tuesday .
The Peresvet weapon – named after a Russian Orthodox monk who defend in single combat at the opening of the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380 , in which both battler died – was first note byPresident Putin in 2018 .
Under favorable atmospheric condition experimental condition , it is claimed that the bulky weapon can be used to take down drones , though the vast vigour consumption make them not well suitable as a portable artillery . The deputy prime quantity minister of religion take that the optical maser can be used to blind satellites .
" It is already being mass - supply to the ( missile ) troops , and it can blind all satellite reconnaissance systems of a likely opposition in celestial orbit of up to 1,500 km , disabling them during the flight due to the use of laser radiation,”he said .
Borisov also claimed that a new laser weapon system bring up " Zadira " has also been deployed in Ukraine .
" If Peresvet blinds , then the new generation of laser arm lead to the physical destruction of the target – thermal destruction , they burn up,“Reuters reportshe told Russian state of matter television , tally " the first prototypes are already being used there . " Borisov went on to exact that the new contemporaries of weapons used a wide electromagnetic band , and would one twenty-four hours interchange conventional artillery entirely .
Though they might sound like skill - fiction , laser weapon have been under development in the US too , and have been shown to successfully fritter away down dawdler during trial .
President Zelensky was unimpressed by the claim of unexampled weapons , compare the propaganda to that of the Nazis at the close of World War II , as it became absolved that they were run short to recede .
" The clear it became that they had no chance in the war , the more propaganda there was about an amazing weapon that would be so powerful as to insure a turning point , " Zelensky reply to the claim .
" And so we see that in the third month of a full - scale war , Russia is stress to discover its ' curiosity weapon system ' … this all clearly shows the everlasting failure of the delegation . "
