Russia to deploy laser weapons in space by 2025

Russia is set to deploy at least 12 new laser optical systems for monitoring missions in outer space by the year 2025, the country’s defense ministry announced on Monday.

The announced project is “within the framework of implementing the program for perfecting and developing the Russian system of monitoring outer space,” state-run outlet TASS reported.

“Russia’s Space Forces are pushing ahead with the effort to create a new generation of specialized ground-based systems of monitoring outer space,” the defense ministry told reporters.

The systems that they will deploy would be “based on different principles of detecting and identifying space objects.”