India tested Star Wars era weapon. Here you will know that India has developed Star Wars Laser Weapon
Weapon Now Star Wars, even if you have not seen the movie, you must have seen some meme or some video of it at some point in your life and you must have noticed one thing, Star Wars is iconic for laser weapons, laser swords, laser guns, laser beams and recently DRDO has made a laser weapon after a long time.
At present time everyone can the India’s potential that we also have such weapon. In recent time India shot down a Chinese made Pakistani drone with a laser weapon. This laser weapon has created by DRDO. The image is this, this is India’s vehicle mounted laser directed weapon. This is a weapon that destroy the target with its laser light. This is quite impressive and seems very destructive.
When will India do this?
If you read the Indian articles about this, it is written in them that we have shot down a drone of Chinese origin. It is a very good achievement as well but at the same time I have to add here that it is not that only a few countries have this technology like US, China, Russia etc. China had developed this weapon in the year 2006, now it is 2025, in 2025 India has developed this weapon. In the year 2006, China had claimed that they have this type of laser weapons.
Germany has tested its laser weapon in the year 2023. Israel has tested it in the year 2024. Japan’s ground forces have launched this 10 kg class high powered laser electronic warfare combat truck in 2024. Russia has been testing it for a long time. South Korea has tested it. UK uploads proper videos to show how strong the laser weapon that UK has is and UK has primarily showed the world that the laser that you use for attacking is quite economical.
An Ammunition Worth
If you want to shoot down a drone, then it may be that you have to use an ammunition worth thousands of dollars many times, use a weapon, use a missile, but this laser attack is very cheap. The cost of attacking once with a laser is only around $3, which means you can say that it attacks once for $1000. So, it’s a lot more affordable this is dragon fire mirrors we fighters this day it right now to fit on to our warships in just years’ time now this you’ve just seen the UK’s dragon fire now one thing I have to add the way UK and US present their weapons to the world that this is what we have created laser weapon. It is not for showing purpose, makes our strength for the betterment of our country India.
ISRO Chairman’s Remarks on Presentation
It is noticed that under the DRDO post, some Indians were saying that we do not have good quality cameras, so improve the presentation a bit more and I remember this thing a long time ago, Dr S Somnath, legendary ISRO chairman has done a very good job. I have a lot of respect for him, someone had asked him that we also launch ISRO’s U-series etc., can we do a little more work on the presentation overall so that when these videos come in front of the world, then it looks better, the presentation looks modern, then the chairman of ISRO also said that is not our priority. Somewhere we need to change that when we are testing these weapons, when you know even ISRO is doing a lot of Its work, perhaps we can do a little more work in the presentation. You can do this, this will increase India’s soft power to a great extent.
Now, if I tell you about the realistic use of such lasers, that if we assume that there is a big attack tomorrow, then how do these lasers work. Israel had demonstrated this in the year 2023, Israel had shot down many incoming missiles with lasers. I think this is the future because it is very economical, people think that such weapons will be expensive, no, on the contrary, it is just a capital expenditure, once you just have to make such weapons, after that there cannot be a better weapon than this for regular use and the good thing for India is that in the future India will make many such direct energy weapons, direct energy weapons that India makes proud.
The Range of Weapon
The weapon system has a range of just 5 km. This can attack drones, helicopters, even aircrafts to some extent, but as per the range of 5 km. If I tell you, our Akash air Défense system, which you can say is a medium Range air Défense system at its range of 25 km. If you see the Russian missile defence systems and as you know that the range of S400 missile defence system is up to 400 kilometres, then 5 kilometres and 400 kilometres are humongous differences. These laser weapons are quite fast and cheap, but they will not be able to replace missile-based air defence systems. There will be many developments, many good news will come in the future, India will do more such tests and show it to the world, so some updates happen.
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