Posted on 06/21/2018 8:14:10 PM PDT by cba123
The U.S. has filed a diplomatic complaint with China after recent incidents in Djibouti where it's believed Chinese nationals aimed lasers at the cockpits of U.S. military aircraft resulting in “minor injuries” to two U.S. pilots.
Both the U.S. and China have military bases in the small African nation located on the strategic Horn of Africa.
“They are very serious incidents,” said Dana White, the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson. “There have been two minor injuries. This activity poses a threat to our airmen.”
“We have formally demarched the Chinese government, and we've requested that the Chinese investigate these incidents,” she added.
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That is still INCREASING.
Why is our relationship described as good?
By whom?...
BRING BACK JOBS TO AMERICA.
Bw a shame if some of those aircraft were carrying laser guided bombs...
We have drones that can target lasers, just sayin’...
With GPS, we might be off by a foot or two but depending on the payload, would it matter?
A protest will do the trick? And if you are the pilot?
My thoughts as well...
At least as far back as the 1980s foreign actors have been shooting lasers at US military pilots. One of the design objectives of the Army’s cancelled LHX project was a cockpit surrounded by TV screens rather than “direct viewing” to protect the pilots’ vision from laser AAA and to give them full-time thermal imaging or light amplification (I2) when needed. They didn’t have thin, light TV screens to support it then, but now they have it in spades.
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