[Lazamataz]

Additionally, activation is a challenge, to say the least. If I am not mistaken in my memory of things I have read, some of these weapons have an array of batteries that must remain charged to certain voltages. All of them are (for example) 5 volts, except for one, which is 5.128492395 volts.

And you don't know which one it is.

And you don't know the exact voltage it should be.

And it discharges to an unacceptable voltage after a relatively short time.

And the whole thing is a paperweight without the right array of voltages.

[Rockingham]

Interesting. I was not aware of that safeguard, in the American model I assume. Since the Soviets tended to copy stolen American designs and respond to the same imperatives, something like that battery system may have been incorporated into the Soviet version as well.