Bronx Guy Lasering Airport Flights...crap

joeyss said:

I wish planes had a anti laser that fired back at these jerks so they know what it feels like.

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LOL

Considering cases such as buglers who fell through sky lights while breaking into people's homes, and were injured, and sued the homeowner's for having defective skylights...and won...

...I don't see return laser fire as a solid counter measure for the airlines.

At most, perhaps an automatic tracking video/camera activation when a laser strike is detected.

Teej said:

LOL

Considering cases such as buglers who fell through sky lights while breaking into people's homes, and were injured, and sued the homeowner's for having defective skylights...and won...

...I don't see return laser fire as a solid counter measure for the airlines.

At most, perhaps an automatic tracking video/camera activation when a laser strike is detected.

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I wonder if anyone has ever pointed a laser at one of the CIA or military UAV's and had a Hellfire missile fired back at them.

Alan

Pi R Squared said:

I wonder if anyone has ever pointed a laser at one of the CIA or military UAV's and had a Hellfire missile fired back at them.

Alan

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I suppose the issue of WHO WOULD TELL you if that happened would be tough.

Teej said:

LOL

I suppose the issue of WHO WOULD TELL you if that happened would be tough.

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Yes I guess no one would make that public. I would hope they wouldn't waste a $110,000 missile on something too trivial but I think they probably do so frequently. I heard or read recently that our UAV's/drones have killed over 2000 people. Remember the incident a few years ago when they killed 50 people at a wedding because someone happened to fire an AK47 in the air just as the UAV was flying over. I think they are wasting too much money on war and on the drone wars in Africa, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. They will fire a $110,000 missile to kill 2 guys in a Datsun pickup truck, there's got to be cheaper and more efficient ways of killing people.

Alan

Pi R Squared said:

Yes I guess no one would make that public. I would hope they wouldn't waste a $110,000 missile on something too trivial but I think they probably do so frequently. I heard or read recently that our UAV's/drones have killed over 2000 people. Remember the incident a few years ago when they killed 50 people at a wedding because someone happened to fire an AK47 in the air just as the UAV was flying over. I think they are wasting too much money on war and on the drone wars in Africa, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. They will fire a $110,000 missile to kill 2 guys in a Datsun pickup truck, there's got to be cheaper and more efficient ways of killing people.

Alan

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Some of that is BS/Propaganda.

Think of it this way...the CIA is essentially combing the data for clues as to where bad guys might be at any given time, and choosing the best points to make them go bye bye.

IE: Where are they mostly reliably be likely to present us with a good target?


They have very weak intelligence typically, so, whatever they get, will require a lot of connecting of dots to make a picture, and, the pictures are going to get drawn with only a few dots.

Add to that, that the bad guys tend to shelter in places that provide human shields, and, if they don't, they can have some pickups raid local hospitals and strew whatever wounded they need at the strike point to make it look like as much collateral damage as possible.

Then consider the mission costs to send a team of special forces, etc, that deep into enemy held territory, given that a team of special forces, operating covertly, would require a MASSIVE amount of prep to ready themselves, and then more time to GET TO where the baddies were GOING TO BE, based upon that "intelligence".

90% of the time, by the time they'd invested a week in getting there, the baddies are long gone.

So, its not "using a $110k missile INSTEAD OF A $4 bullet", its using a $110k missile instead of a week's labor for a team of special forces AND some $4 bullets....with the option to NOT fire that missile if by the time the drone gets there if the baddies are reported to have left, etc.

IE: A human team will cost ~ the same even if the mission is aborted, as the labor to get ready etc, is the primary cost. The Hellfire is only fired if there's a target, and, stays on the pod if they find its not worth hitting the button, etc.

Figure the MILLIONS spent on a special forces team in the first place, in training, education, equipment, etc. Losing ONE of the men will cost the military MORE than the cost of a Hellfire missile.

If you send in MEN, they are in harms way, and, might get killed. If a Hellfire "dies", its no where near as tragic.

I was in an airplane yesterday, flying from Dulles (IAD) to Newark (EWR). We were only at 11,000 ft elevation (it was a turbo prop).

I looked out the window and thought "It would be sooo cool to have a laser right now and be able to point it at the ground". :na:

Zathras said:

I was in an airplane yesterday, flying from Dulles (IAD) to Newark (EWR). We were only at 11,000 ft elevation (it was a turbo prop).

I looked out the window and thought "It would be sooo cool to have a laser right now and be able to point it at the ground". :na:

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LOL

First, arrange a mirror JUST RIGHT....


So that the beam hits the cockpit on the ricochet...and they go nutz trying to figure out where it came from...

:angel:

Teej said:

LOL

Considering cases such as buglers who fell through sky lights while breaking into people's homes, and were injured, and sued the homeowner's for having defective skylights...and won...

...I don't see return laser fire as a solid counter measure for the airlines.

At most, perhaps an automatic tracking video/camera activation when a laser strike is detected.

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if it's 2x the size of his head or put through a beam expander he'l
ll be fine. just learn what it like to get hit my a strong blast of monochromatic green cone bleaching light.

Remind me the time i was driving a guy had freaking green HID lights on.

Oh god they were the WORST.