[6] On 1 December 2019, Minister of Defence of Russia Sergei Shoigu announced Peresvet was deployed with five divisions of the Strategic Missile Forces.

[2] These sites are located[7]  : The sixth is being built in: According to the military expert Igor Korotchenko, director of the Center for Analysis of the World Trade in Arms, the Peresvet combat laser can be successfully used against unmanned aerial vehicles.

The expert also added that such installations consume a lot of electricity, so using them as a portable tool is unlikely to succeed; in the future they will be able to protect military bases and other locations from penetrations of UAVs into their territory.

He also claimed the system can blind enemy satellites in orbits of up to 1,500 km and "disabling them during their fly-past by means of laser irradiation".

[9] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mocked Russian claims as propaganda and compared it to the Wunderwaffen myth during World War II.