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The announcement raised American eyebrows and mocked Volodymyr Zelensky: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said last week that Moscow had deployed laser weapons in Ukraine.
This is the "Zadira", a prototype generating an energy beam supposed to be able to incinerate a drone at a distance of five kilometers.
Western skepticism should not make us forget that laser weapons are not fictional.
They are already operational worldwide, recalls
La Repubblica.
The Russian "Zadira" is also the advanced version of Peresvet, long tested in Syria to ward off Islamic State drones.
Israel already has a variant of its "iron dome" equipped with a light beam instead of interception missiles, explain our Italian colleagues.
In fact, the concept has been around since the Cold War.
Soviets and Americans used lasers to blind the electronic sights of…
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