I just read of a real good way to use a laser to assasinate someone in
Tom Clancy's latest "Clear and Present Danger". In the book the Director
of the FBI has been assasinated in Columbia and the U.S. has decided to
retaliate. The find out about a meeting of the drug lords by monitoring
cellular phone conversations. Two CIA operatives use the laser to paint
a vehicle near the target and then smack the vehicle with a laser guided
weapon. In the book they blew up a pick-up truck next to the conference
room with a special bomb (combustable casing so it would leave no bomb
casing fragments). The bomb was dropped from a bomber off of a carrier
which had its IFF rigged to pretend to be a routine cargo hauler. The bomb
didn't actually explode until it was inside the truck i.e. contact detonated
meaning it fell a fraction of a second past impact. The net effect is that
survivors of the hit assumed it was a car bomb and started looking for
people who had access to the car and would use a car bomb, not for any
people who might have been able to see where the car was parked from
several kms away.
Non Cuniculus Est,
Tom Harris