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I feel like blinding sensors or pilots might be easier?
by b_tterc_p 7y ago
I feel like blinding sensors or pilots might be easier?
- jws 7y agoEasier, but prohibited by treaty. See “The Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, Protocol IV of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weapons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_W... It’s quite short and to the point. No weapons designed to permanently blind people are allowed. Incidental blindness is ok, also if you get blinded while looking through binoculars that’s fine. Blinding sensors is also fine.
- iheartpotatoes 7y agoThe US seems to sometimes honor treaties, and sometimes not. Unless they get caught. Snowden and countless other whistleblowers have taught us that.
- b_tterc_p 7y agoThis one seems odd. If this weren’t explicitly allowed, it could rather easily stop most aerial operations. While it is nice for pilots, it seems to cancel out the potential to just make sending pilots on military runs in feasible in the first place.
- hindsightbias 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weapons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Wea...