490 Hryvnias for a shot: Dragonfire laser weapons can be obtained - The Telegraph

According to the UK Minister of Defense, Grant Shapps, a weapon capable of hitting a coin from a kilometer away, "can have enormous consequences. " The United Kingdom is considering providing Ukraine with the latest laser weapons prototype for Dragonfire air defense. The Minister of Defense of the United Kingdom Grant Chapsa reported about it, reports The Telegraph. Shapps notes that the deployment of these weapons is a priority for the defense sector.

It is planned to accelerate the process of development and deployment of these weapons by 2027. "I want to accelerate the process that usually takes a lot of time, perhaps up to 10 years, by much shorter time and to expand it, perhaps on ships, and possibly on land," Shappps said. While visiting Dragonfire laboratory on Thursday Grant Shappps, the Minister of Defense, said that a weapon capable of hitting a coin from a kilometer away can "have enormous consequences.

" Dragonfire is an invisible and silent weapon that works on a wavelength, unnoticed to the human eye. The United Kingdom has accelerated the development of laser weapons in the context of geopolitical events such as war in Ukraine and the Middle East. First, lasers are installed on the British Fleet ships and then their deployment on land. Weapons work through focusing 37 channels of laser rays with a capacity of 1.

5 kW, located in a hexagonal array, and their combination with the help of mirrors for merger and strengthening of power - is a physical phenomenon known as structural interference. Tim Kendall, Senior Lizerist DSTL who helped to create Dragonfire, says that this way creates a "perfect laser beam" that can be released through a telescopic lens.

These weapons are silent and invisible, since its light wavelength is within about one microcon, which is invisible to the human eye and is close to the infrared spectrum. The tests of these weapons, created with the use of almost completely individual guidance system and ready laser components, have led to the destruction of unmanned apparatus and mortar explosion in less than five seconds.

It is expected that the cost of lesions of unmanned devices laser will be much lower than the launch of rockets, which can cost tens and hundreds of thousands of pounds. According to the publication, the cost of one shot is £ 10, which is approximately 491 hryvnia at the National Bank rate. The Dragonfire ray is moving at the speed of light, and its radius is still secreted.

It instantly turns the metal surface into a plasma with a temperature of 3,000 degrees Celsius and is able to burn leaf metal, housing and weapons in seconds. It should be reminded that in March it became known that the British military during the tests at the Pentagon landfill on the Hebrida Islands for the first time made a powerful shot from Ldew Dragonfire laser air defense system.