The arms race continues within the framework of the war in Ukraine. And kyiv intends to put the odds on his side by having ever more efficient weapons to repel the Russian aggressor, especially since Moscow does not slow down his offensive. According to recent declarations of his staff, the Ukrainian army has managed to make a formidable weapon, of a new kind, to push the waves of enemy drones. Ukraine indeed claims to be one of the first countries to have successfully developed an anti -aircraft weapon with laser technology, reports the American specialized media Defense News.
This secret machine, named Tryzoub (“Trident” in French and thus evoking the coat of arms of Ukraine), was used on the battlefield against flying targets at low altitude, probably Shahed drones, originally developed by Iran – which were largely built in Russia – and used by the Russian army since the start of the conflict. It was Colonel Vadym Soukharevsky, commander of the forces of unmanned systems within the Ukrainian army, which was the first to publicly evoke the existence of this energy weapon directed on the sidelines of a conference dedicated to the defense December 2024, before confirming it once again at the beginning of February, during an interview with Radio Free Europe.
If the Ukrainian army says it has managed to eliminate enemy targets on the front, it is difficult to know in which development phase is this famous Tryzoub antidrone laser. You have to sort through propaganda and reality on the ground, in a well -tied Ukrainian communication strategy.
Ukrainian capacities called into question
It is not to be excluded that one system has been developed and that its mobility is currently limited, due to its energy need and the need to cool the devices, says Defense News. In addition, kyiv’s ability to develop such a directed energy weapon immediately challenged experts. Until very recently, legitimate doubts could have emerged as to the ability of Ukraine to acquire by its own technological means with advanced armament, generally reserved for the most modern armies in the world.
But the shock aroused by the large-scale invasion of the Ukrainian territory in February 2022 greatly revived funding in research and development of the military-industrial complex. This did not prevent some experts from questioning this Ukrainian military innovation, seeing it as a reproduction of the British laser Dragonfire.
Quickly, Ukrainian officials sought to deny these accusations, rightly recalling that many of the British military technologies were state secret. In addition, the government of the United Kingdom had announced its intention to send its laser system to Ukraine in April 2024, before returning to its decision a month later.
Info or Intox: Russian opposing forces are warned that Ukraine intends to continue its resistance, the country doing everything to acquire ever more lethal and efficient weapons. At the same time, truce talks placed under the aegis of Washington and US President Donald Trump continue in Saudi Arabia. The two parties found, this Tuesday, March 25, a semblance of agreement to stop hostilities in the Black Sea, but which promises to be quite complicated to set up, the fault of the condition imposed by Russia to lift certain Western sanctions.
