Nato is deploying “unjammable” laser systems to defend top-secret military communications from hybrid warfare attacks by adversaries such as Russia .

Advanced laser technology will allow militaries including Britain’s to deliver large quantities of data at high speed safe from interception, sabotage and electronic warfare campaigns that have targeted traditional networks including radio, satellite systems and fibreoptic cables.

The technology, which uses infrared lasers to communicate between moving or stationary objects on the ground, at sea or in space, was developed by the Lithuanian start-up company Astrolight, one of few European companies developing such capabilities, backed by Nato ’s defence innovation body, Diana. New Feature

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