
Chairman of the State Committee for Military Industry of Belarus Dmitry Pantus announced the entry into service of the Shafran laser complex, designed to destroy drones at a distance of hundreds of meters.
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The Shafran complex was previously demonstrated at the Zapad-2025 exercises. The system is designed to combat small-sized UAVs.
The Belarusian army received the Shafran laser complex, which burns drones hundreds of meters away, Dmitry Pantus, chairman of the country’s State Military-Industrial Committee, told the Belarus-1 TV channel.
According to him, the Belarusian-made complex continues to be modernized “in order to increase power, range and other tactical and technical characteristics.”
In September 2025, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Saffron combat laser, capable of destroying small-sized drones at a distance of up to one kilometer, was used at the Russian-Belarusian exercises Zapad-2025.

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