Ukraine says laser weapons that shoot down airplanes have appeared

Ukraine is the fifth country in the world that possesses laser weapons that can shoot down airplanes, among other things. This was reported by the commander of the unmanned systems forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Vadym Sukharevskyy, on 16 December.

According to Sukharevsky, the Ukrainian laser weapon is called "Trident", adds "Gazeta.Ru".

"As of today, we can already shoot down airplanes at an altitude of more than 2 kilometers with this laser," - said the commander of the unmanned systems forces of the AFU. His words are quoted by the Ukrainian edition "Strana.ua" in Telegram-channel.

At the moment, work is underway to scale this weapon, Sukharevsky noted.

In addition, he told about the use of the AFU in the combat zone of drones-"mats", which are FPV carriers and have a skid depth of more than 70 km.

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The weapons are already being used by Russian units in the special military operation zone

Earlier, on December 11, the head of the Ukrainian Finance Ministry, Serhiy Marchenko, said that the Kiev regime would have enough funds, weapons and ammunition for about the first half of 2025 if the US stopped funding it. On 10 December, the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were on the verge of collapse and the situation on the front was not in Kiev's favor.

On November 14 last year, Verkhovna Rada deputy Yevhen Shevchenko said that the former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Valeriy Zaluzhny, had told the country's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy (whose term of office expired on May 20), about his idea to create an army of robot soldiers. According to the MP, Zaluzhny saw such technologies at an exhibition in New York and hastened to inform the Ukrainian leader that the Ukrainian Armed Forces needed them.

The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.