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China Deploying Blinding Lasers?
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 1:20 pm
by VMI77
http://weaponsman.com/?p=28092
An interesting report. If it’s true, it indicates something that should surprise no one, except for everyone in the State Department, and everyone in the current administration’s Pentagon: China will do what Chinese leaders think is in China’s best interests, not what they are obligated to do by International treaties.
China’s military has equipped its forces with blinding laser weapons in apparent violation of an international agreement signed by Beijing.
“China has been updating its home-made blinding laser weapons in recent years to meet the needs of different combat operations,” the official military newspaper PLA Daily reported Dec. 9.
PY132A Blinding Laser Weapon. (Yes, that’s its official name).
Re: China Deploying Blinding Lasers?
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 2:06 pm
by RoyGBiv
First rule of war... There are no rules.
Re: China Deploying Blinding Lasers?
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 2:13 pm
by zero4o3
RoyGBiv wrote:First rule of war... There are no rules.
Except there are apparently a lot of rules
Re: China Deploying Blinding Lasers?
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 2:26 pm
by drjoker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzler_%28weapon%29
USA has dazzlers, too. They're supposed to be harmless, but it's a lie. If you shoot someone less than 40 meters away, you're permanently blinded. They "try" to shoot people farther away. (yeah, right)
Re: China Deploying Blinding Lasers?
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 2:28 pm
by Scott in Houston
The good news…
It will break after a couple of uses and you'll end up seeing Chinese soldiers stacked deep at the Walmart return counter.
Re: China Deploying Blinding Lasers?
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:09 pm
by oohrah
Our targeting lasers are just as effective at blinding someone.
Re: China Deploying Blinding Lasers?
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:11 pm
by nyj
I wanna play with one.
Re: China Deploying Blinding Lasers?
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:13 pm
by VMI77
Scott in Houston wrote:The good news…
It will break after a couple of uses and you'll end up seeing Chinese soldiers stacked deep at the Walmart return counter.
You say that....and I have some Chinese tech that has indeed ended up that way, but I also have some that I paid like 10%-20% of what the alternative would have cost me and is still going strong.
Re: China Deploying Blinding Lasers?
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:28 pm
by cb1000rider
VMI77 wrote:
You say that....and I have some Chinese tech that has indeed ended up that way, but I also have some that I paid like 10%-20% of what the alternative would have cost me and is still going strong.
You've just got to buy 5 or so to find that one... :-)
Re: China Deploying Blinding Lasers?
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:32 pm
by Beiruty
shooting laser, a drone would drop a 2-lb HE missile on the source of the laser.
Re: China Deploying Blinding Lasers?
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 10:30 am
by oohrah
Apparently, we've been doing this for some time:
https://www.hrw.org/reports/1995/Us2.htm
Re: China Deploying Blinding Lasers?
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 10:34 am
by suthdj
Scott in Houston wrote:The good news…
It will break after a couple of uses and you'll end up seeing Chinese soldiers stacked deep at the Walmart return counter.
Remember, that cheap chinese stuff is built to design specs accepted by the American company you bought it from.
Re: China Deploying Blinding Lasers?
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 10:51 am
by Scott in Houston
Come on guys… it was a 'tongue in cheek' joke.
As to "built to design specs by the American company" … That's what you'd hope. Anyone who thinks the QC in China is on par with places like Germany or Japan is living in a dream.
China is an evil country run by evil people. I prefer to not have my things come from there, but clearly, it's unavoidable. As they completely take advantage of and abuse their people to run a pseudo-capitalist market, their labor costs are obviously going to be low and it's hard to compete with that.