Do you really want to start an international intervention without a TPP-esque trade deal in place?
Is this actual combat operational laser technology now?
http://www.laserpointersafety.com/resources/How-to-reduce-incidents-02-1024w.jpg
Typically it's idiots but this time it came from a military base, so maybe one could say they're using "laser warfare".
Just chuck a practice mortar at their shitter, should get their CO to start giving a shit.
No. Theyre not shooting down aircraft with lazers, theyre temporarily blinding pilots with them.
Its dangerous and inconvenient but not worth going to war over something like this. It would be like China going to war with us because we jammed their radio communication near our base.
So, is anyone going to mention Chinas increase in missiles on their manmade island or?
Fun fact, in WWII Allies "shot down" German aircraft with some success using nothing more than high-powered floodlights. Blinding a pilot performing maneuvers can lead to all kinds of nasty shit, like inverted flight without the pilot realizing it, and when that low altitude alert chimes their instinct is to yank the stick back - which will just send them spiraling into the ground sooner.
I can see lasers being a cheap and effective way to combat air raids between two first-world countries, if shit really broke out.
The concept has been around for ages, but even a simple laser pointer could cause serious disorientation and potential eye damage. You get up to military grade shit and not something bought in a grocery store checkout, and it could be pretty bad.
They're effective enough that the Soviets seriously studied the usefulness of using laser technology to blind/disable tanks and planes in the 80s/90s. (The systems became too expensive and the collapse of the USSR didn't help.)
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This is the *real* reason that Blitz fiction set in the UK has spotlights sweeping around, whether the creators know it or not. The blimps were a similar lo-fi measure-- it distracted gunfire, and created a huge, asinine collision risk for bombers.
Aren't blinding devices forbidden by the CCWC?
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