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In message <6899@tuegate.tue.nl> dated 8 Jan 93 12:44:28 GMT
wouter@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Wouter Slegers) writes:

> jeh@cmkrnl.com wrote:




> : > [...]
> : >                LASER WEAPONRY / PART 1 / LASER SIGHTS
> : > [...]
> : 
> : I don't know about the circuitry provided... but the stuff in there about a
 
> : 2 mW HeNe laser being dangerous to human eyes is complete bunk.  
> : 
> This is not quit true: a 2 mW laser is enough concentrated to damage the eye
> tissue if your looking right into it..
> 
> : I would also point out that the claim of "perfect targetting" for a laser 
> : gunsight just isn't so -- elevation and windage still are factors -- and th
at
> Correct, but it does give some extra targetting info..
> 
> : *seeing* the dot of light from a 2 mW laser at any reasonable distance, in 

> : anything other than pitch blackness, is damned near impossible.  


True, but laser targeting systems do not use the naked human eye!!!  Most
laser targeting system do not operate in the visible range, and are used 
in conjunction with a remote viewing device such as night vision.  The army 
has a system were they bore sight a laser to a m16 rifle, the user is wearing
night vision goggles, the laser is only visible to people wearing goggles.el
Where ever the dot lands is dead!  It is good to about 50 yards, I think!















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