Russian industry would develop, according to the agency TASS, a new system for protecting armored vehicles against precision munitions. It would be a laser and IR detection system to identify threats, coupled with a capsule launcher generating an aerosol cloud disrupting visible light, infrared, and electromagnetic radiation.
Russian armored vehicles like the T-14 Armata already have an Afganit active/passive protection system, combining countermeasures and projectiles that destroy threats. This new system, which will be initially mounted on the new 120 mm Lotos self-propelled gun intended for airborne forces, is a lighter, and probably much less expensive, system intended to equip the mass of Russian armored vehicles that do not have this type of protection. currently, and therefore particularly vulnerable to precision weapons, such as anti-tank missiles or guided bombs and shells.