A "Jedi Sword" type laser pointer with a purple beam is used in Russia to defend military airfields from unmanned aerial vehicle raids. It installed a thermal imaging device on a machine-gun turret.
Orders for the management of military units and formations are conducted on the Telegram channel Fighterbomber.
Installation of a "Jedi Sword" type laser pointer with a purple laser beam on a thermal imaging device, equipping turrets with a powerful flashlight and laser pointer, providing on-duty subsectors at the airfield with two radio stations. One has personnel management, the other is for interaction with the airfield control point and the sector control point.
The authors of the channel were skeptical about this idea. They noted that many of its points raise a number of questions.
You can understand the pointer taped to the heat to see the UAV in it and the laser target to show all citizens. But due to the reliability of the design and the fact that the laser beam is not visible at all in the heat, or poorly visible, this wunderwaffe aspirator, seeing the UAV in the heat, can shine the beam on the back of a comrade's head.
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