The Kremlin is talking about reviving Russia's laser tank-building programme

The Russian government should consider building some laser tanks, that's according to the newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

The news outlet, owned and directed by the country's government, wrote at the end of May about the potential for a "laser tank," citing the US military's development of a ship-mounted rail gun.

More recently the International Business Times has followed the story up.

But, believe it or not, Russia has actually had a programme for the construction of laser tanks before. A series of different models were built in the later years of the Soviet Union, though little remains of them today.

Take a look at all the tank-mounted laser-firing military power that Russia once had to offer.