Russia's new laser weapon can disable satellites

[The SC]

Russia has been developing new weapons to destroy American satellites since at least 2021, and this threat could only get worse now.

Moscow is developing a new laser system, called Peresvet, to disable foreign satellites over Russian soil, according to an open source investigation published last week in The Space Review.

Borisov said that Peresvet was already being widely deployed and it could blind satellites up to 1,500 km above Earth.

This weapon threatens to change the balance of power in space wars and will contribute to rewriting the rules of the game of war and espionage on Earth.

Military expert Dmitry Kornev said that the Russian combat laser complex “Peresvit”, designed primarily to disable satellites, described this combat laser as one of the levels of defense against space weapons, and noted its ability to destroy satellites.

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3967/1

 

[Skull and Bones]

No it cannot, it can only dazzle the image sensor in the satellite and saturate it momentarily, ‘under an ideal condition’. The refractive index of the atmosphere changes with varying temperature and humidity in the atmosphere. And given that the beam has to travel a distance of few hundred kilometers, the beam profile will not be straight.

I am not even including the atmosphere induced scattering in the equation.

 

[RescueRanger]

Russia is fast following the Nazi regime in its hunt for that ever elusive wunderwaffe (wonder weapon).

It didn't work out well for the Nazis and it won't end so well for Russia either.

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

They need it in the Donbass now.

 

[YaqoobAlam]

Russia has been developing new weapons to destroy American satellites since at least 2021, and this threat could only get worse now.

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Moscow is developing a new laser system, called Peresvet, to disable foreign satellites over Russian soil, according to an open source investigation published last week in The Space Review.

Borisov said that Peresvet was already being widely deployed and it could blind satellites up to 1,500 km above Earth.

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This weapon threatens to change the balance of power in space wars and will contribute to rewriting the rules of the game of war and espionage on Earth.

Military expert Dmitry Kornev said that the Russian combat laser complex “Peresvit”, designed primarily to disable satellites, described this combat laser as one of the levels of defense against space weapons, and noted its ability to destroy satellites.

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3967/1

Japan too has been working on such a weapon.

 

[Muhammed45]

Iran has already done that to CIA sat @aryobarzan

US: Report says Iran blinded CIA satellite with laser | Laser Pointer Safety - Statistics, laws, and general laser pointer news

www.laserpointersafety.com

 

[The SC]

They need it in the Donbass now.

In a conference aired on the state media Channel One on Wednesday, Yury Borisov, Russia’s deputy prime minister, said the country’s state-of-the-art laser weapon, called “Zadira,” is being used to shoot down Ukrainian drones.