I imagine that's their point, a strike from the rear is less likely to blind the pilot, but it's not impossible. There's a lot of glass, and lots of other polis

I imagine that's their point, a strike from the rear is less likely to blind the pilot, but it's not impossible. There's a lot of glass, and lots of other polished glossy surfaces around an airplane, so a laser beam could still conceivably reflect off a surface in the pilot's field of view.