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Sukharevskiy reported on the presence of laser weapons in Ukraine and the use of a "mother" drone (interfax.com.ua)
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[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

To my knowledge, Turkey has also developed laser weapons, and they have seen action in Libya.

As for possibilities of fast development - when need is great, people do things faster.

But I'm skeptical of laser weapons myself. They depend so much on weather. Air defense is expected to be reliable, not "it is snowing, we can't shoot". They can be used, but they always need a backup option if weather works against.

The drone "motherships" are a real thing with real benefits, however. They get around line-of-sight issues (single FPVs cannot go beyond obstacles without losing singnal, but with a mothership they can even go beyond the curvature of Earth).