Footage has surfaced online showing tests of a promising small-sized combat laser system for countering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The system demonstrated the ability to disable a small quadcopter and a Kub-BLA kamikaze drone by directly burning through the electric motor nacelle and airframe.
The complex demonstrated the highest accuracy of gearless torque motors and a two-plane stabilization system of the combat module, represented by a fiber optic laser with a power of 15 to 25 kW.
The laser is equipped with a turret-mounted multispectral thermal imaging television module for searching for aerial targets, as well as a multifunctional radar guidance system with a 4-sided active phased array antenna, providing all-round visibility in the azimuthal plane and from -10 to +90 degrees in the elevation plane.
The complex does not have a "dead funnel" in the upper hemisphere, and therefore it is possible to intercept diving UAV kamikazes at large angles and hovering "free drop" copters.
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