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• gotocake 8y ago
  Yes absolutely, the countermeasures aren’t produced because the only laser weapons deployed for the last two decades are either giant chemical lasers mounted on 747’s and designed to imtercept ICBM’s, smaller (but still quite large) ground based lasers designed to intercept rockets, or dazzling lasers that haven’t been deployed at all. The former two aren’t used against human targets and would be expensive and unwieldy if you tried. The latter don’t burn anything, they temporarily blind and disorient. So yes, why would optical countermeasure be produced and deployed against a threat that doesn’t exist? That isn’t to say such countermeasures would be difficult to produce or deploy against a laser in this power range though.