Many things were impressive at the recent military parade in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II (which was designed to impress with a super-production by old Soviet standards that it certainly surpassed), but some caught more attention than others.
One of them was the ship-borne high-power laser system called the LY-1, although the announcer’s description confused the situation, as it referred to it as a “naval system,” which brought to mind the appearance of such a system on the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s Type 071 LPD last year.
It is estimated that this is a land application, although rather cumbersome, due to the giant vehicle that houses the power source, which may however be intended for marines.
