The British government announces that Ukraine will be the testing ground for a new laser weapon that could change the economics of warfare. The weapon, called DragonFire, will be installed on a warship by 2027 and has the capability to shoot down drones and missiles with high accuracy.
Ukraine is to become a giant testing ground for a revolutionary new laser weapon which, if successful, promises to radically alter the economics of warfare , the British government says.at an Army range in Scotland earlier this year. Now, defence procurement rules are being changed to rush it to deployment five years early, and perhaps to the front line in Ukraine even sooner.
The cutting-edge DragonFire laser will be installed on a warship by 2027, adding to an already potent array of air defence weapons countering growing drone and missile threats.in a statement: “ the UK’s first laser weapon. Able to shoot down drones and missiles with incredible accuracy, it could revolutionise how we fight wars. And this isn’t an idea decades away, we’re building it right now to fit onto our warships in just three years time.
This, if it works, would radically rebalance the economics of warfare as seen in Ukraine, where Russia — for instance — is able to blanket Ukraine with cheap, mass-produced explosive drones costing just a few tens of thousands of dollars each, but which would have to be shot down with missiles costing hundreds of thousands or millions. This attritional form of warfare becomes less appealing if Ukraine is able to shoot down drones with a $12 energy burst.
Similar systems are already in use in Ukraine by both Russian and Ukrainian troops, and the degree to which Project Ealing is a step-change in this technology is unclear. DSTL energy weapon expert Matt Cork told: “Just turning things off when we choose to turn things off leads to a potential where actually they stop trusting their own equipment. It creates that element of doubt in their ability to use their equipment when they need to use it.
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