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To: rdl6989; All

Oops, sorry, this place sells green lasers for $99.00.


30 posted on 01/02/2005 7:34:35 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989
100-160 mW lasers are running for under a grand on eBay.

The 5 mW laser pointers are not going to injure anyone's eyes in an aircraft, although they can make pretty streaks in the sky for a few hundred yards.

I would expect that anyone seriously trying to interfere with the operations of an aircraft would use a laser in the several watt range, and it probably would be an infrared laser.

I am still skeptical of the "tracking" and "lock-on" claims; if this is true it is essentially advanced military technology.

Without automated tracking, a person with a tripod and a telescopic site could manage a few swipes but not continuous tracking. That is, unless the aircraft is on a long final and the attacker is located not far from the end of the runway. In that case, a few seconds or tens of seconds would be easy.

40 posted on 01/02/2005 7:41:18 PM PST by steve86
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To: rdl6989
Oops, sorry, this place sells green lasers for $99.00.

Just googled this: http://www.wickedlasers.com - green for US$79.

103 posted on 01/02/2005 9:14:20 PM PST by solitas ('Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.3.7)
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