Peresvet laser complex

George1 wrote:Video of the new mobile laser system that was presented during V.V. Putin's annual state-of-the-nation address today. Possibly anti-missiles / aircraft laser system(?) RIA Novosti

The-thing-next-door wrote:
Anyway is doesn anyone have any Idea as to what exactly this thing is and what it might be used for?

Militarov wrote:

Its comparable to lets say AN/SEQ-3 LaWS.

MOSCOW, July 19. /TASS/. Russian Aerospace Force has accepted for service the laser complexes Peresvet and the military are now taking drills that involve the novel combat technologies, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

"The Peresvet laser complexes have been placed at sites of permanent deployment," the report said. "Active efforts to make them fully operational are underway."
"To ensure their proper functioning, the necessary infrastructures and specialized facilities for housing the complexes and duty crews have been built," the ministry said.

The crews assigned to the Peresvets have taken upgrader courses at the Alexander Mozhaisky Military-Space Academy in St Petersburg.

"The cadres receive training in theory in specially equipped classrooms and get practical drills at combat equipment," the report said.

The crews are also getting trained in teamwork as part of commissioning of the Peresvets for combat duty, said Gen Anatoly Nestechuk, the chief of staff of the Aerospace Force’s 15th Army.

Development and commissioning of new strategic systems aims to build up Russia’s defense capability and to prevent any aggression against it or its allies, the Defense Ministry said.

The Peresvets are the first Russian combat complexes based on new physical principles. President Vladimir Putin mentioned the Russian combat laser for the first time in his address to both houses of parliament on March 1.

kvs wrote:Looks like a sensor and pilot blinder type.   Not a sci-fi device for blowing aircraft out of the sky.

PapaDragon wrote:

kvs wrote:Looks like a sensor and pilot blinder type.   Not a sci-fi device for blowing aircraft out of the sky.

You are looking at wrong thing here. What you should pay attention to is truck:

1) It's huge but most of it is dedicated to power source. This means that output is supposed to destroy not just jam.

2) it has no off-road features. This means that it's supposed to move on paved surfaces. No attempts to hide in the wilderness means it has significant range and that it's designed to be used from preselected locations.

LMFS wrote:Great advance to deal with hypersonic warheads even before they are fielded by enemies.

Militarov wrote:"Yuri Borisov, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, cited the example of the capability of the "Peresvet" combat laser system, which can be used against missile guidance systems. "There are on-board defense complexes that almost all aircraft are equipped with, which aim is to counteract anti-aircraft missile systems, they are usually equipped with homing heads, the basis of which can be optical heads." Laser technologies are used for illumination - the homing head is blind, the missile does not find its goal, "he said. At the same time, Borisov stressed that the US also has prototypes of laser weapons, "capable of destroying lightly armored vehicles and damaging manpower."

kvs wrote:

Militarov wrote:"Yuri Borisov, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, cited the example of the capability of the "Peresvet" combat laser system, which can be used against missile guidance systems. "There are on-board defense complexes that almost all aircraft are equipped with, which aim is to counteract anti-aircraft missile systems, they are usually equipped with homing heads, the basis of which can be optical heads." Laser technologies are used for illumination - the homing head is blind, the missile does not find its goal, "he said. At the same time, Borisov stressed that the US also has prototypes of laser weapons, "capable of destroying lightly armored vehicles and damaging manpower."

Sounds like the proper assessment of this system.

Lasers are power hogs and they lose a lot of energy penetrating the air mass.   In space, it is a different story.  The size of the trucks in this complex does not necessarily indicate "laser blaster" capability.

Big_Gazza wrote:

LMFS wrote:Great advance to deal with hypersonic warheads even before they are fielded by enemies.

Lasers can be useful against slow targets (since they have sufficient time to heat up the target to the point of damaging systems or causing structural failure) but against hypersonics they are unlikely to be effective.  Engagement duration is too brief due to missile speed, and hypersonic weapons will be heat resistant to deal with frictional heating.

Militarov wrote:Yuri Borisov, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, cited the example of the capability of the "Peresvet" combat laser system, which can be used against missile guidance systems. "There are on-board defense complexes that almost all aircraft are equipped with, which aim is to counteract anti-aircraft missile systems, they are usually equipped with homing heads, the basis of which can be optical heads." Laser technologies are used for illumination - the homing head is blind, the missile does not find its goal, "he said. At the same time, Borisov stressed that the US also has prototypes of laser weapons, "capable of destroying lightly armored vehicles and damaging manpower

Mindstorm wrote:

Militarov wrote:Yuri Borisov, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, cited the example of the capability of the "Peresvet" combat laser system, which can be used against missile guidance systems. "There are on-board defense complexes that almost all aircraft are equipped with, which aim is to counteract anti-aircraft missile systems, they are usually equipped with homing heads, the basis of which can be optical heads." Laser technologies are used for illumination - the homing head is blind, the missile does not find its goal, "he said. At the same time, Borisov stressed that the US also has prototypes of laser weapons, "capable of destroying lightly armored vehicles and damaging manpower

Where is this assertion ?

Юрий Борисов is perfectly aware (and we talk here of personal technical awareness) of the parameters , the capabilities and the operational tasks assigned to system "Пересвет" and couldn't ever uttered a similar non-sense -unless it was merely attempting to explain, in a shallow way,to not-educated interlocutors what are the overall employments of lasers systems today around the worlds, without refering specifically to the system in question ,that can do much much more than merely ruin enemy missile's homing devices and at ranges that foreign developers would find almost incredible.

It is definitely one of the two systems ,among those presented in March's presentation, with the greater impact's potential on the balance with the enemy forces and theirs same military organization, that will force in the next decade a radical redesign of an enormous amount of enemy weapons; the system has nothing to do, in its parametric features, with "similar" DEW system now in development or in test anywhere on the planet.  

The problem at today is in the very limited off-road capabilities and speed of the systems that a further miniaturization of one of the key components will hopefully resolve.