The Belarusian enterprise "Scientific and technical center "Lemt"" together with Russian research institutes is developing a laser module with a power of 100 kilowatts for the destruction of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A representative of the Belarusian company told TASS about this.

“We have a joint project with two research institutes from Russia. We are making a very powerful and perfect system - a laser for combating drones. We are talking about the defeat of drones at a distance of tens of kilometers. "Hyperboloid engineer Gagarin" read? Here it will also hit a drone with a laser beam, ”he said.

The representative of Lamt added that the cooperation program with Russian research institutes is designed for two years, and the working prototype of the module will be ready in 2023.

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Earlier in May, the Lamt Scientific and Technical Center for the first time presented a prototype of a laser module for destroying drones at the international exhibition of arms and military equipment MILEX-2023 in Minsk. The melee system operates at ranges up to 1.5 kilometers.

In April, Defense News reported that the U.S. Army had tested a short-range laser air defense system at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona under the Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD) program. A 50-kilowatt laser managed to shoot down several drones.