Military chiefs scramble to rush UK’s new laser ‘death ray’ into service amid fears over Russian missiles and drones – with hi-tech DragonFire system to be fitted to Royal Navy warships [Video]

15:04 EDT 11 Apr 2024 , updated 07:10 EDT 12 Apr 2024

Military chiefs are to rush devastating laser guns into service to meet the threat posed by Russian drones and missiles.

Royal Artillery troops will test the revolutionary ‘DragonFire’ weaponry, which burns holes through incoming enemy ordnance, during the summer.

The sudden urgency to roll out a suite of ‘directed energy weapons’ follows the Kremlin’s alarming effective use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Ukraine.

British soldiers will also experiment with radio frequency weapons capable of firing magnetic pulses at enemy targets thereby cutting off their power supplies.

Last night, UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps boasted that Britain is leading the world in the development of these breakthrough technologies.