Russia threatens to incinerate drones & 'blind' Western satellites with laser cannons.

RUSSIA could use new-age laser weapons to disrupt Western satellites or Ukrainian drones in the current war, a top Kremlin official has hinted.

Yury Borisov, deputy premier in charge of military development, said the new mobile system, Peresvet, was already deployed with Moscow’s forces.

He said: "It can ‘blind’ all satellite reconnaissance systems of an ‘enemy’ up to an orbit of 1,500km [932 miles], thanks to laser radiation."

Reports have said Western satellites have been used to hand intelligence to Ukraine on Russian military movements.

Borisov said Russian weapon designers demonstrated a separate new laser system to knock down enemy drones with a burst of intense heat.

He said: “Today our physicists developed, and are almost serially producing, laser systems causing heat damage.

“This was shown yesterday from a 5km [3 miles] distance… A drone was burned in five seconds and simply stopped existing.

“Weapon systems on the way will be based on new physical principles and will define our Armed Forces’ combat readiness in the future.”

Borisov said that laser and electromagnetic broadband weapons will replace [conventional weapons] in the coming decades.

He added: “This is no longer exotic but reality already.”

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Russia threatens to use laser cannons to incinerate drones & ‘blind’ Western satellites in chilling warning over Ukraine

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