Silent Hunter is a Chinese ground-based fibre-laser counter-drone system marketed by Poly Technologies, with documented Saudi deployment and a claimed engagement range of up to 4 km.
LY-1, also called Liaoyuan-1, is a Chinese laser directed-energy weapon intended for close-range naval air defense. Public reporting documents its unveiling and apparent shipboard evaluation, while interception performance and operational service remain unestablished.
Britain's drone-frying laser — a directed-energy weapon that burns aerial targets out of the sky for about £10 a shot, accurate enough to hit a £1 coin at a kilometre. After a 2024 high-power trial it won a £316m deal to arm Royal Navy destroyers from 2027.
Russia's mobile laser — unveiled in Putin's 2018 "super-weapons" speech, named for a warrior-monk — built to dazzle reconnaissance-satellite sensors and hide mobile ICBMs from orbit. Fielded since 2019, but almost everything about it is a Russian claim experts treat with caution.
Israel’s first operational high-power laser air-defense system — a 100 kW directed-energy weapon designed to intercept rockets, mortar bombs and drones at a fraction of the cost of kinetic interceptors, now woven into the Iron Dome network.