Laser spears for the Russian Army

The creation of high-tech weapons is possible only on the basis of solid-state technologies

Laser weapons are firmly established in real life and their first use in the war of Argentina and England for the Falkland Islands, when the simplest LW was used to blind the enemy, was just the beginning. The development and creation of inefficient and very expensive laser monsters on gas-dynamic and chemical bases in the United States and on electric-discharge, gas-dynamic and chemical bases in the USSR became the next stage in the development of the laser weapons epic. Then there were spectacular, but not effective, LW demonstrations at the Farnborough International Airshow and for the fight against drones in the Persian Gulf. It is clear that in order for lasers to become a serious weapon, it is necessary to significantly reduce the size of the complexes, increase their efficiency and increase the output energy. Laser "toys" with a power of up to 60 kilowatts in a dense and humid air environment for use in power mode are ineffective. But even at the giga / terawatt level, pulses with the nano/micro-joule energy of a single ultrashort pulse impact will not be a panacea. Both the energy sector and its peak capacity are important. The mechanisms of the functional effect of LW are well studied, there is a niche for its application, and the transition to the creation of a high-frequency pulse-periodic (P-P) mode is not accidental. And yet these are only cautious attempts to understand what to work with. Research in the field of combat lasers is already at the level where in the fairly near future it is possible to create a significant means of defeating the enemy.