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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
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Originally Posted by TteFAboB
Can it be used against infantry? Or light vehicles?
If such a weapon could be used against that poor soldier who stepped out in the open it could have quite a dramatic psychological effect.
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Lasers are forbidden per some convention (that I forgot the name of) for use against soldiers. An easy laser to field 'at this moment' would use invisible laser light but hemmorage the eyes to the point of permanent blindness in every troop unprotected in the immediate vicinity - like within like 5 miles from the transmitter. Naturally, nuclear reprisal is typically the threat used by the US as a response to doing this to our troops on the battlefield, and we agree also not to use it, but it is well known that these types of systems already exist.
I still find it weird that there are rules in warfare, but definitely neccesary for instances like this.
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It was the "United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)"
Protocol I restricts fragmentation weapons
Protocol II restricts landmines
Protocol III restricts incendiary weapons
Protocol IV (adopted in 1995) restricts blinding laser weapons
Protocol V (adopted in 2003) sets out obligations and best practice for the clearance of explosive remnants of war
There was a story about a sailor who got his eyes damaged when a Russian laser from a AGI was used on him...