In the age of laser cannons

HASAt the height of the Russian offensive in Ukraine in early 2022, 400 drones were in flight simultaneously on the Donbass front alone, according to the Ukrainian army. Faced with this multitude of targets, from the small observation quadricopter to the multi-ton aircraft drone, it is impossible to fire a large number of anti-aircraft missiles. But a futuristic solution is now arriving on the battlefields: the laser, a light beam carrying energy with destructive potential. If Einstein described the principle of the concentration of light in a beam as early as 1917, the first lasers did not appear until the mid-1960s. CD players. But everything changes: “Alloys and materials of syn…