"Slip'er" wrote in message

Aviation is cause for a little more concern as even becoming distracted at
a
critical moment can lead to or contribute to an accident chain...but will
not likely be the only cause. Sure, perhaps somebody with a military
grade
LASER can aim it at you, the light attracts you to look at it (natural
response) and in the few milliseconds that you actually look at it, your
eye
balls melt and both you and your co-pilot are blind. Wasn't this also the
topic of a Clancy novel and/or movie?

I also heard a rumor that we tested a weapon like this once. A giant
LASER
with a mirror for high speed aiming powered by a huge diesel generator was
driven out onto the battle field and blinded a bunch of the enemy in
desert
storm...so the story goes. But this source says they existed and were
never
used....

Visible light lasers wouldn't work since the targets can just close their
eyes or look away. UV would be more effective since it would fry retinas
before the victims could react. Also, UV lasers are available in extremely
high power ratings.

moo