The next generation of Russia’s fighters jets will be equipped with advanced lasers that can burn the homing systems from enemy missiles, a Russian weapons company told TASS on Thursday, July 27.
Russia announced that it had started developing a sixth-generation advanced fighter jet in March of last year.
Air-to-air missiles are guided by a homing system that uses heat and other information to find its target. The new lasers on Russian jets will be capable of zapping that homing system from the missile, effectively making it blind, said Vladimir Mikheyev, adviser to the first deputy CEO of Radio-Electronic Technologies Group, which developed the system.
“We already have laser protection systems installed on aircraft and helicopters and now we are talking about developments in the field of powered lasers that will be able to physically destroy attacking missiles’ homing heads,” Mikheyev said.
“Roughly speaking, we'll be able to burn out ’the eyes’ of missiles that look at us,” he added.
