Russian armed forces received laser weapons

Source: Pravda.Ru

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said that the Russian armed forces received prototypes of laser weapons. According to the official, it goes about combat, rather than experimental weapons that have already been taken into service by the Russian army.

Speaking at a meeting dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov, Yuri Borisov said: "They are not experimental, but combat weapons that we have already been passed into service. The weapons based on new physical principles have become reality today. The technology existed before, but now is the time when they are used in practice," the general said apparently making references to the technologies that were developed in the USSR.

"These high-tech weapons will largely determine the image of the Russian army under the new state arms program before 2025," he added.

The weapons of new physical principles are based on physical processes and phenomena that have not been previously used either in conventional weapons or in weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, bacteriological). International military experts distinguish between laser, radio-frequency, beam and kinetic (including railgun) weapons.

In December of 2014, former Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General Yuri Baluyevsky, acknowledged that the Russian Federation was working on military laser systems.



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