Called Tryzub (Trident, with reference to the national symbol), That it would have been used on the battlefield against low -altitude lenses, probably pilot -free aircraft such as Iranian manufacturing Shad drones. The source of the news would be the colonel Vadym Sukharevskyi, Commander of the Unmanned forces of the Ukrainian army, who would have talked about it in a generic way in December, as reported by the Ukrainian Interfax news agency. Questioned again in this regard by Radio Free Europe in February of this year, the officer had confirmed that the weapon was operationally lined up and able to break down drones at a certain distance, even if images of the system have never been released or information on what objectives has neutralized and where.
This could mean that Tryzub is still an experimental weapon And that is therefore not ready to be produced in series. On a technical level, weapons with energy concentration (in this case laser), need to be fed by a considerable amount of electricity; The only pointing system must be of extreme precision in order to arrive on the target, they must also be kept cooled. For these reasons these weapons are often large, since they must host both current generators and the related cooling systems. It must be considered that each “blow” of laser generates temperatures above 700 ° C by subjecting them optics and structures to continuous stresses. It is no coincidence that the most common installation today is on board naval units (typically American), where sea water is used to lower temperatures and where there is availability of electricity, or on large trucks as happens in the case of Israeli defense forces (IDF).
But certainly for Ukraine to have such technical experiences It is a qualifying factor to return to the restricted number of countries that have developed these technologies, therefore, at least officially Israel, USA, Germany, Australia, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Russia, China and few others. The war between Moscow and Kiev caused this: a strong acceleration towards the development of laser weapons or concentrated energy. From what is learned from western sources, Russia has also been working on laser since 2019 and has built the Peresvet-Zadira system which would be active at five strategic missile divisions. However, it would be a different weapon and mainly intended for more than anti-drons’ anti-Satellite activities. Some British military sources had leaked that the British Mbda Dragonfire system had been tested and evaluated in Ukraine, but it has never been declared whether or not this would have been officially acquired by Kiev with deliveries provided for from 2027 to 2033 implement them.
