Ekaterina Girnyk13:16, 31.05.25

The target destruction range is 1.5 km.

Russians have started using Chinese-made combat lasers to shoot down Ukrainian UAVs. As DefenceExpress analysts write , the first footage of the laser in action has been shared on social media .

The Russians directly admit that this is the Chinese Low-Altitude Laser Defending System or LASS, a combat laser system probably developed by the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics.

As analysts note, analyzing the data presented on the network, the system has a power of approximately 10-20 kW, the range of destruction of low-flying small-sized targets is up to 1.5 km, the laser operating time required to hit the target is approximately 10 seconds. At the same time, “blinding” of targets occurs at a distance of up to 3 km.

The maximum laser operating time is 200 seconds, the system’s radar can detect targets at a distance of 500 m to 5 km. The system’s deployment and deployment time is less than five minutes.

As analysts add, such a laser has also been spotted in Iran’s arsenal.

Russia Improves Its Drones

The Telegraph reported that Russia had upgraded Iran’s Shahed-136 drones by adding 90-kilogram warheads, allowing them to cause even more damage during strikes on Ukrainian cities.

Also, the head of the communications department of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Yuriy Ignat said that Russia is improving the tactics of launching “Shaheds” in order to bypass the Ukrainian air defense and exhaust it. According to him, to do this, the Russians are constantly changing the routes of the drones and increasing the altitude at which they are launched – they fly at an altitude of more than 2 kilometers from the ground and then dive down directly onto the object itself.

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