A look at Ukraine’s claim: Can the country produce a laser weapon? How would it work? | DW News

[@RaphaelChan888]

Sorry, but every time I hear someone say "laser", I always see Dr. Evil doing air quotes in my mind

[@Uninfluenceable]

Tsar Wars

[@MightyMouse11]

Clever

[@AnonYmouS00816]

Best comment 😂

[@AaronOkeanos]

Something is telling me this technology is much further than they want to let us know. Laser is old. Over 50 years by now and you can be sure they trying this for decades.

[@barbadoskado2769]

laser is old, but high intensity laser that can damage something at a distance is still something of science fiction , think of it like plasma rifle or time travel

[@dieglhix]

@barbadoskado2769 a $300 handheld laser can burn retinas in a second at 10 meters range. Imagine a military laser.

[@teblack2]

The problem is not the laser itself. The actual issue is tracking the target and aim at the same point (very precise) for a relative time and at long distances. I don't think that Ukraine could develop something like that in his condition, if they have this, probably came from a country that are testing it in real scenarios

[@s-m-abidnizam8247]

Why didn’t you mention it is game changer ?? 😂

[@MetalGearRex85]

Why must you reveal secret weapons? That is not smart, dont reveal anything you dont have to.

[@sergeyb8]

There's no such thing as a secret in the modern world. Especially when we are talking about weapons used in a war

[@albertoserrano67]

Laser weapons date back to early 2000s that heats up a missile 😂

[@thejollygreendragon8394]

Yes, I tend to think, let them find out when they experience it, and not before

[@wyvernlord23]

If you are belligerent and know an enemy has a knife you are less likely to try to get in a fist fight. If you dont know an enemy has a knife you might attack them like they were unarmed. In the same way hiding a secret weapon's capability makes the chances of a fight greater than if you say you have it and keep your enemy guessing.

[@georgekaradov1274]

The Ukrainians are desparete for something to boost morale, even if it is a wunderwaffen of dubious quality. NATO did run of any wunderwaffens, so now they are inventing their own.

[@Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo]

Mit der kaputten Energie-Infrastruktur? So ein Laser braucht jede Menge Saft.

[@DelfinoGarza77]

The lazer is from the future!!! They solved the power problem!!!

[@barbadoskado2769]

@@DelfinoGarza77 yes sis LASER is from ze future with highly advänced alien technologiexxxs

[@untouchable360x]

“Not laser. It’s a special military emission.” Ukraine

[@justayoutuber1906]

Ukraine built all of the USSRs weapons, subs, battleships, etc. They have the knowledge.

[@mikes989]

totally wrong

[@mcwally514]

If so, those people are dead already.... But, innovation comes when one is desperate. And Ukraine is fighting for its life.

[@andrea-1271]

A clown with his comment. Ukraine built nothing significant.

[@glenwoofit]

Its the UK's Dragon Fire that we said months ago we will send to Ukraine. If it does what it says on the tin then it will be a very cost effective way to shoot down drones. I thought the US had cut funding for their laser weapon as they couldn't get it to work? Lasers do have limitations but according to the hype around Dragon Fire we have come up with a way to extend it's useful range in difficult conditions. It's like rotating the shield frequency of the USS Enterprise.

[@elendal]

Don't worry about US ;-)

[@xjet]

Hundreds of millions of dollars are being invested in laser-weapon development. Meanwhile, the countermeasure consists of a mirror which can be bought at the local convenience store for $2.

[@patrickcowan8701]

Reflective chaff.

[@LACHIVA1969]

Lol, just saw a KZbin video where the laser just pierce through the mirror like butter. And that was only a 200W laser. Imagine what a 2MW laser could do.

[@Shining237]

Ukraine should have never listened to Boris Johnson in 2022.

[@JeffBilkins]

nobody should have listened to Boris Johnson ever

[@robertjamesonmusic]

Lol you russians mad? 😂 ruble in decline

[@alhambrabiker1476]

Russians should have never listened Putin.

[@legitbeans9078]

Nobody should listen to Boris Johnson. Ever.

[@AG81a]

Would be nice to ask if they wish to field test raillguns as well.

[@barbadoskado2769]

yes, then they can really see the gibs flying when they frag

[@dieglhix]

@barbadoskado2769 best game mode ever.... I want it back so bad.

[@frankhalsey-y4c]

They've been given enough money to build a Death star.

[@ЮлианГуруев]

Dose it mean that USA can build 20 Death Star each year?

[@sergeyb8]

Tell us how much money Ukraine received. I bet you didn't know what it's far less than a tiny Greece got for a financial bailout.

[@obhytheophanous7348]

Lol

[@SkepticalChris]

noting motivates more, than warfare, and if there's any nation with the motivation to pump as much brainpower into these laser anti-drone defenses, its certainly Ukraine.

[@ArmHope]

DW can’t get an expert from the EU… guess the US is only innovating

[@Wisconsin_Local_139_Crane_Guy]

Rt is still banned and this is the best

[@pjhgerlach]

@@Wisconsin_Local_139_Crane_Guy And RT should stay banned as there's no place for BS.

[@kappenmann12]

The brits are pretty advanced. From there Ukraine gets the knowhow, I guess.

[@reqontra]

The Germans have literally an institute devoted to photonics, called Institut für Angewandte Photophysik (I think they renamed it some time ago) in Dresden. But they are probably not "exciting" enough for this show...

[@thegreatdane3627]

maybe they got a little help from Rheinmetall, after the russians tries to unalive the CEO...

[@dangunnell6319]

The brits gifted it ???

[@D-E-S_8559]

LOOOL that was stated tongue firmly in butt cheek ....

[@timothykrause2327]

Obviously this is US laser technology being tested in Ukraine.

[@AdHernandez]

how doyou know that?

[@Palatineoffacts]

What about plasma railgun?

[@dieglhix]

it surprises me it wasn't done earlier. I have a four watt handheld laser which is capable to burn retinas in second, bought for $300 10 years ago. A country in war should be able to develop higher powered mobile lasers that's able to target enemy faces from distance and automatically

[@DelfinoGarza77]

Obviously, Ukraine built a time machine and went to the future to get a laser. Also its spelled LaZer not laser.

[@AaronOkeanos]

Wrong: Laser stands for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation" it is an s

[@TootSocialTV]

You burned yourself being a smartazz

[@Lakebaytm]

Yessssss I had this in my test and I got it right​@@AaronOkeanos

[@Andreas-gh6is]

Two kilometers is next to useless. The drones would need to fly almost directly above the operator, which means that you'd need hundreds of such weapons to cover enough ground.

[@albertoserrano67]

2025 laser warfare who knew 😂

[@robertkwechen373]

Trench warfare with lasers and drones. It just doesn’t sound right

[@NotthisonetryswWalker]

Dragon fire from the UK 🇬🇧🇺🇦 this was speculated ages ago. Nothing is quicker to develop a weapon than put it on the front line, hope it works and the UK gets the development win win Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇬🇧

[@andreaswinsnes6944]

Sounds like targeting electric infrastructure will become even more common in laser wars. Poor civilians…

[@jonny5714]

One day it will be like Star wars for sure. I just hope the lasers will make the same sounds.

[@pjhgerlach]

Ukraine was the weapons producer of the USSR... of course they can.

[@nivardofloresperez1169]

Are you serious?? This is not a Video Game, why "we" keep on releasing this sensible information to the enemy??

[@AaronOkeanos]

What a coincidence I was just watching Star Wars Rogue One not even an hour ago.

[@urbansenicar81]

Why would it matter if the drone moves about for a laser?

[@legitbeans9078]

So what he's saying is its basically star wars. Thats cool af

[@Lakebaytm]

Laser beam?! I have heard this word somewhere...

[@theolich4384]

Another AliExpress game changer?

[@tropicalparadisemishuevos]

Would it work on my mother in law??

[@ernestfdd4589]

Salvage😂😂😂😂

[@Vlad-qu5mt]

theoretically, could just flashing pocket civilian laser beams at it disrupt it? would a ceramic cage help protect the drone?

[@teblack2]

Ceramic is too heavy, but there are other materials that can be burned without damaging the other side, and are really light. Like Starlite or Fibre glass for example

[@braxxian]

More “wonder weapons” more “game changers”. Pretty sure we have heard this all before.

[@barbadoskado2769]

Ceausescu already had this laser tank technology in th 70s - which he used to repell the soviet attacks xD

[@BardovBacchus]

Nuclear Wessels with fricken lasers

[@BruceWayne-xg2cz]

Live Test site for the weapon company 😂... Ukraine now is the test site of new weapons 😢

[@Mrdm0066]

Probably testing a system for one of companies that has working prototypes. Designing and building such a system from scratch will take alot of time and money. Definitely not developed by Ukraine. I am sure that whoever gave Ukraine this weapon will decide to reveal details if tests prove successful, if not, they can say Ukraine built it and they will have nothing to do with it.

[@YellewBhee]

Yap send us the money and we can build it ….

[@odilbekb-sarkaev1052]

Герань нот Герания😂

[@stevanjakovljevic8390]

You produced V1 and V2 , but that dint stop a fact that you lost . Now is same , papa 4Reich

[@mickaeldahlqvist3615]

Of course they already have the blueprints.

[@reqontra]

Even this American engineer admits the Ukrainians were highly unlikely to "leapfrog" USA, UK, etc. in developing such weapons. What's more, the Israelis developed their Iron Beam laser weapon, and also it's lite version called Lite Beam which has a suspiciously similar range of 2000 m like this one the Ukrainians made. The effectiveness of such weapons is so low the Israelis almost cancelled them, as heard from the mouth of a distinguished Israeli physics professor who worked on their development. The problems are technical and range from the inability to reload enough photon energy quickly, to battle beam dispersion in non-ideal atmospheric conditions, to track the exact same spot on the target long enough to heat it up sufficiently to melt or burn (esp. if the target quickly moves or spins). Add some fog, clouds or hypersonics and its effectiveness drops to zero. So, nice try, but still no Wunderwaffe for the Ukrainians.

[@puntuated]

Not very well researched for a podcast that’s 1 hr old!

[@Ros-co]

🥒Luke....I am your father.

[@michaelcorlet2998]

This so called expert is obviously not in the loop.poor choice dw.

[@StelfBrettro]

We have space Lazer tech Lmao it's been prototyped the last 4 years Lol. People are so slow

[@user-vf5oj6ko1e]

The Tellurometer

[@zonkey7938]

Ukraines new Chinese laser I used to play with when I was a kid 😂

[@美麗的春天]

Und was hat der Beitrag gebracht an echten Informationen ? Nicht's wie zu erwarten war!

[@Stmilla]

Superb

[@silafaupaulmeredith7251]

Where are the F16s? Now another BS wonder game changing weapon

[@kebabitas]

In a Europe West and USA. You should not miss one important thing: people in East Europe, Baltics, Rumunia, Poland, Bulgaria, Czeck - they don't see you as reliable partners anymore. And it's a big peace of land. People are desperate, they don't trust you will figth with us agains Russia. We are thinking abouth other options to secure us and you not gonna like thouse other options, it will cost you much more.

[@salvatorelionetti1274]

Zar Wars

[@CorporealUndead2024]

Big deal, they will just start painting drones in a reflective paint. Problem solved.

[@horeen2000]

Game changer weapon😂

[@andrea-1271]

A beggar country that asks everything from the west suddenly builds a great laser weapon. lol

[@yp77738yp77739]

Sounds as if kerplunskyy has been on too much of the Colombian marching powder, again!

[@CeylonLastMile]

lasar flashlight may be.

[@shukabol8438]

It's a game changer 😂

[@alberthenriette8976]

Another big game changer after the ghost of kiev😂

[@kebabitas]

This is help from Souht Korea, stil pathetic help, but ok.

[@AlexThetankI]

Began the clone war have

[@hijamhenboy8839]

Jedi r2 d2 🕺🏻💃🏻

[@hanzee9008]

👍

[@ibandabuekamba7559]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@williamlai29]

Sending toys to a warzone....

[@brazendesigns]

That’s exactly how weapons development works. The French sent their airplane toys over the battlefields of WWI, someone decided to throw a grenade from one, and look what happened since.

[@Dutchfr1908-d3d]

We failed Ukraine. Thanks to us as in NATO and partners they will lose land and are losing the war. So sad.

[@kappenmann12]

True… but don’t lose hope. The russian economy will crack soon. Prokrowsk is not that important.

[@ricardolourenco3707]

Yep. Lasers are continium. You don't see "Bolts". It is direct beam emission. It heats the target. And melts it shell. It isn't new. The only problem was the mass of batteries needed. It expends lots of power. Mobile laser systems ? Any 4 star general wet dream. Triple A, effective at more than 10km, pinpoint accuracy, no drag or attrition. The only downsize is really power to feed it.

[@lorddamon079]

In a state of war America made nuclear weapons . It’s not crazy if they made lasers 😂

[@LuisCipher]

Do the "DEW"! 🫠 🤺