Russian media takes notice: China has achieved mass production of low-cost missiles and drone killers!

The "toy" laser will completely transform future warfare.

On May 9, Russian media outlet "Today China" published an article.

When we were children, we watched Star Wars and dreamed of owning a blaster.

Just a "whoosh—", and the enemy's starship would be disintegrated into molecules.

Now that we've grown up, technology seems determined to catch up with our dreams.

At Malaysia's largest arms exhibition, DSA, people weren't gathering around new tanks or cannons—but around a seemingly ordinary white pickup truck.

The cargo bed carried a device resembling a telescope.

This is the NI-L3K, developed by China’s Novasky company—a genuine combat laser that will revolutionize future warfare!

How does it work?

Imagine you're on a sunny day, holding a giant magnifying glass, trying to burn a hole in a piece of paper.

Do you remember how long it took to precisely align that "spot of light"?

Now imagine that magnifying glass is as large as a television, with light intensity a million times stronger—and even if the paper flies past at 100 kilometers per hour, that "spot" automatically locks on with millimeter-level precision.

That's exactly how China's NI-L3K operates.

The system can detect drones at a distance of 1.5 kilometers. It uses electronic eyes to "lock onto" targets and begins "staring" at them.

The aiming precision here is astonishing—just 3 arcseconds.

It's like standing at one end of a football field and using a laser pointer to accurately hit the pupil of a fly resting on the goalpost at the opposite end.

Western experts, accustomed to massive defense budgets, are stunned.

China’s laser weapon strategy—featuring the “three pillars” of LY-1, LW-30, and Silent Hunter—is fundamentally different from America’s approach.

The Gulf War demonstrated that the U.S. is rapidly depleting its stockpiles of long-range Tomahawk missiles and Patriot interceptors.

Each drone engagement costs American taxpayers $1 million.

China’s NI-L3K system has completely shattered this strategy.

The cost to destroy a single target with Chinese laser equipment is merely $1 to $10.

Think about it: the price of a cup of coffee exceeds the cost of destroying an enemy drone with China’s laser.

And it requires no ammunition trains, no gunpowder factories—just electricity.

The NI-L3K has an azimuth coverage range of -175° to +175°, with elevation reaching up to +50°.

This means no drone diving or low-flying target can escape this beam of Chinese laser light.

Thus, the system is cheaper, simpler—essentially the AK-47 of the laser weapons world.

But the NI-L3K is just the foundation of the arsenal—specifically designed for close-range combat and eliminating threats that break through outer defenses.

Systems like the NI-L3K can destroy swarms of small drones at extremely low cost.

Even more powerful devices exist: Silent Hunter and LW-30. These have already been exported and proven effective, capable of burning through the armor of large targets from several kilometers away.

Finally, the most powerful system is the LY-1, which can even intercept cruise missiles.

Certainly, lasers have limitations: dust, fog, and smoke can reduce beam coherence.

But under modern conditions of "proxy wars," these drawbacks are negligible compared to their overwhelming advantages.

In urban environments, air defense interceptors often fail catastrophically, while China’s laser weapons operate with surgical precision.

The reckless flight of cheap drones comes to an end the moment the laser activates.

The greatest irony? Today’s "future weapons" no longer resemble the massive futuristic cannons from Star Wars—they now look more like toys tucked into the back of a Chinese pickup truck.

Original source: toutiao.com/article/1864662068000780/

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone.