CEO of the Brave1 defense innovation cluster Andriy Hrytsenyuk expressed confidence that combat lasers developed by Ukraine will be able to shoot down small enemy UAVs this year, but not «Shaheeds» yet.
CEO of the Brave1 defense innovation cluster Andriy Hrytsenyuk expressed confidence that combat lasers developed by Ukraine will be able to shoot down small enemy UAVs this year, but not «Shaheeds» yet.
Andriy Hrytsenyuk told about this in an interview with dev.ua.
«I am sure that during this year, combat lasers will actually be used against small enemy UAVs and at short distances. If we talk specifically about the „Shaheeds“, I believe that this year the progress and readiness of developments will not yet reach a state where they can be shot down with the help of lasers. There are longer distances, and the longer the distance, the more power is needed,» he noted.
According to Andriy Hrytsenyuk, many countries, including ours, are currently experimenting with these technologies, and Ukraine «has several projects.»
The CEO of Brave1 also said that Ukraine has made significant progress in the development of laser target illumination technologies, and Brave1 has funded relevant projects.
«Ukraine did not have its own laser designators at the beginning of the war — they used exclusively partner ones. Now they have appeared, Ukrainian developments have started working. Brave1 has been financing this since the beginning of its creation. In 2024, we also provided grants to companies so that they could create Ukrainian solutions,» he added.
As Andriy Hrytsenyuk says, thanks to laser illumination, we were able to effectively shoot down enemy targets with shells or our own UAVs.
«There are foreign Copperhead shells. And there is an airplane, helicopter or UAV with a corresponding laser that can shine on the target. Thus, this high-precision shell is guided to an illuminated target. A UAV can also make a very precise hit on a target illuminated by a laser, and for this it does not need to have GPS or use computer vision algorithms. That is, it is promising,» he assured.
Recall that yesterday, Brave1 CEO Andriy Hrytsenyukalso shared that Ukrainian manufacturers are testing prototypes of microwave weapons that can hit entire swarms of drones.
