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

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.