Very well. We’ve been using them for range finding on tanks for decades.
“One downside, he noted, is that lasers take a lot of energy and have difficulty penetrating haze, dust, smoke and materials with anti-laser coatings.”
Not saying they won’t work at all but if I was Russian scientists, I would be spending time looking for ways to generate the right kind of smoke to use in the battle field to thwart laser weapons.