Speaking at a press briefing in Kyiv, the general said that field-capable systems could arrive within two to three months, adding that several working prototypes are currently in testing. He said both teams inside the Armed Forces and private companies are producing laser weapons.
“It can already shoot down FPV [first-person view] drones and is already being used against Shahed drones,” Lebedenko said.
“In the next two to three months we will have systems that will allow us to defeat aerial attack means even better than machine guns. That’s the plan, and so far it’s working.”
On Feb. 10, The Atlantic reported that Ukrainian
engineers had developed a compact, inexpensive laser weapon called Sunray.
Reporter Simon Shuster wrote that the device “easily fits in a car trunk,”
makes no sound and emits no visible beam; he described the prototype as simple
to operate.