[Belatedly retransmitted -- reply to [email removed] reply to Adrion]
Dan & Adrion,
I had just *assumed* that were were using low-power aiming mode on our
laser shoulder-weapons. Iron sights are for the birds if you're not shooting
lead.
A current riot-control assault rifle has a VISIBLE-red aiming laser slung under
the barrel -- the red bouncing dot tends to having a calming effect on the
rioter(s) its aimed at, I'm told.
For efficient transfer of energy from battery to victim, i suspect killing
lasers *are not* in the visible spectrum. The only operaiontal deathray
I know of today, in man-aimable form, is a Maser -- called a navy gunnery
target designation radar. Technicians supposedly adjust its iron sights by
aiming at a seagull (*Never an albatross!*) and squeezing the "trigger".
Basically a high-power, lasing, radar gun that produces instant oven
fried seagull at 30 paces and calls homing smart-bombs when painted on
large naval targets far away.
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