红外和激光对抗装置早在70年代苏联就在红外、激光等领域取得了令世人注目的成就,特别是激光技术比较先进。到80年代,苏联在发展激光武器方面加快了步伐。当时,苏联在激光武器方面的投资是美国的7倍,并部署了作战使用的反卫星激光武器,拥有了能摧毁美国某些卫星的有限作战能力。 Infrared and laser confrontation devices As early as the 1970s, the Soviet Union made remarkable achievements in infrared and laser fields, especially the laser technology. By the 1980s, the Soviet Union accelerated its pace of developing laser weapons. At the time, the Soviet Union invested seven times as much in laser weapons as the United States, deploying anti-satellite laser weapons for combat operations and possessed limited combat capabilities that could destroy some of the U.S. satellites.