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CHINA has developed a powerful new laser assault rifle that can obliterate a target from nearly a kilometre away, researchers claim.
According to Chinese researchers, the ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle can “instantly carbonise” human skin and tissues, set a person on fire and make them feel “pain beyond endurance”.
A laser weapons scientist said the device was able to “burn through clothes in a split second … If the fabric is flammable, the whole person will be set on fire”, the
South China Morning Post reports.
The weapon weighs three kilos, about the same as an AK-47, and has a range of 800 metres that can be mounted on vehicles.
The report compares the weapon to something out of Star Wars, describing a silent invisible beam of energy powerful enough to pass through windows.
The laser is currently classified as “nonlethal”, but its sniper-like range could prove its greatest asset, with the scientists who worked on it already claiming it’s ready for mass production due to its small size. Each weapon would be produced at a cost of 100,000 yuan ($AU20,405).
The researchers said its invisible frequency and the fact that it produces no sound gives the advantage of no one knowing where the attack came from.
“It will look like an accident,” the researchers said.
The weapon is said to be powered by a rechargeable lithium battery, and can fire over 1000 shots per charge, lasting no more than two seconds each.
China has developed a powerful new laser assault rifle, researchers claim.
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This is way US pilots are complaining that they got lasers shooting them, from Chinese bases and ships.
https://www.rt.com/news/431476-china-laser-rifle-prototype/
Pew, pew! China develops AK-47-sized low lethality ‘laser rifle’
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Chinese armed police and Russian national guards take part in a joint counter-terrorism drill. © / Reuters
Chinese Armed Police units may soon have a new weapon, a portable laser beam that can reach targets from a kilometer away and is powerful enough to set flammable things on fire.
Although classified as “non-lethal,” the infrared laser projector can “burn through clothes in a split second … If the fabric is flammable, the whole person will be set on fire,” according to a South China Post
report. The device is called ZKZM-500 and has been prototyped by the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shaanxi province.
It weighs about 3kg, has an effective range of 800 meters and is powered by a lithium battery pack. It fires in bursts of no more than two seconds and lasts for over 1,000 ‘shots’ before requiring recharge.
The inventors see their “laser rifle” as a means to disable hostiles, for instance during a hostage situation. It can be also used for sabotage, for example, buy causing gas tanks of enemy vehicles explode with no apparent cause. There is a potential use as a crowd control tool, although a beam that can burn through clothes is probably overkill for such a task.
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SCMP says the developer is now seeking a partner with a license to produce weapons to put the ZKZM-500 into series. It estimates that it will cost about $15,000 per unit when mass-produced. Basic documentation about the weapon was released last month at a government-run website for military-civilian collaboration.
Lasers have been used in military applications for decades for things like range detection or projectile guidance. But their use as directed energy weapons was not feasible until recently due to energy requirements and other drawbacks of the technology. Powerful lasers tend to produce plasma in its path, which causes the beam to defocus, and are cheaply countered by smoke screens.
The US is currently in the latest stages of introducing large laser devices on Navy ships, which are to be used against high-speed targets like incoming missiles or speedboats. There were also tests of a vehicle-borne laser meant to destroy mines from a distance.
A number of projects for portable low-lethality laser weapons were announced over the years, most of them in the US, but none of them reached maturity.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/04/china_laser_attack_djibouti/
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Pentagon in uproar: 'China's lasers' make US pilots shake in Djibouti
Begun, the laser wars have, it is claimed
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Iain Thomson in San Francisco 4 May 2018 at 21:12
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The US military has formally complained to China after blinding lasers were fired at Uncle Sam's aircraft coming in to land at the American airbase in Djibouti.
Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said two US military pilots suffered minor eye damage from lasers hitting the cockpit of their C-130 transport airplane landing at Camp Lemonnier in the African nation. Lasers have been directed at craft over the airbase at least ten times in the past few weeks, we're told.
“They are very serious incidents,” White said today, the South China Morning Post
reports. “This activity poses a true threat to our airmen.”
Aircraft laser strikes hit new record with 20 incidents in one night
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The 500-acre Camp Lemonnier base was set up after the September 11 attacks, and it coordinates US military activities in the West African and Middle Eastern region. However, in 2016 China built its first overseas military base a couple of miles down the road, and the laser emissions are coming from this facility, the Americans claim.
The availability of cheap laser pointers has caused
an epidemic of laser strikes on aircraft in America's skies as idiots think it would be fun to try and blind a pilot mid-flight. The FBI has offered bounties on such fools. As you might expect, it appears the Djibouti strikes may be coming from slightly different hardware.
Military researchers at Jane's Defence Weekly reported last month that Beijing installed a high-powered laser system at its Djibouti base, or possibly on a ship at the nearby naval station.
“The use of lasers to temporarily blind pilots has been increasing over the years and dates back to the cold war when US Navy pilots were periodically attacked by lasers emanating from Soviet naval vessels and spy trawlers,” Jane’s said.
High-powered laser systems are increasingly being used to down or disable drones. Their use against humans is strictly prohibited. Both the US and China are signatories to the UN's
Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, which bans their use on humans except for "incidental or collateral effect of the legitimate military employment of laser systems."
“China has always complied with international law and the laws of the host country,” the Middle Kingdom's Ministry of Defense said in a statement. ®
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U.S. military pilots in East China Sea targeted in laser attacks
by Jesse Johnson
Staff Writer
U.S. military pilots flying aircraft over the East China Sea have been targeted by blinding laser attacks more than 20 times over the last 10 months, U.S. officials told The Japan Times, after a number of similar attacks in East Africa that the Pentagon has said Chinese military personnel were behind.
The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said the attacks in the waterway, where the Chinese military has bolstered its operations, were first reported last September. The incidents were believed to have come from a range of sources, “both ashore and from fishing vessels,” spokeswoman Maj. Cassandra Gesecki said.
Indo-Pacific Command said it would not go into specifics about the incidents, but media reports quoting unidentified U.S. officials said some of the fishing boats were Chinese-flagged vessels. Officials wouldn’t definitively confirm that Chinese personnel were behind all of the incidents.
Beijing operates a “maritime militia” of Chinese fishing boats, which it trains and subsidizes with sophisticated gear such as GPS equipment. Such vessels have played an important role in China asserting its various territorial claims in the East and South China Seas.
Chinese personnel at the country’s first overseas military base in Djibouti had been using lasers to interfere with U.S. military aircraft at a nearby American base, activity that has resulted in injuries to U.S. pilots and prompted the U.S. to launch a formal diplomatic protest with Beijing.
However, unlike the Djibouti incidents, where military-grade lasers had been employed in some cases, the East China Sea incidents involved smaller, commercial-grade laser pointers popularly known as “cat grade” lasers because pet owners have known to use to play with their animals. Even so, these types of lasers have been known to temporarily blind pilots and, in some cases, cause eye damage.
“In light of these recent incidents, units operating in the area are conducting an assessment of their laser eye protection equipment,” Gesecki said.
While Chinese fishing vessels have long operated in the East China Sea, the country’s military has embarked on a military modernization program heavily promoted by President Xi Jinping, who has overseen a shift in focus toward creating a more potent fighting force. This has included projects such as building a second aircraft carrier, integrating stealth fighters into the air force and fielding an array of advanced missiles that can strike air and sea targets from long distances.
In a demonstration of its continued push to refine its power-projection capabilities and push further into the Western Pacific Ocean, the Chinese military in April conducted drills in the Pacific with its sole operating aircraft carrier.
The East China Sea is home to a long-running dispute between China and Japan over the Senkaku Islands, which are controlled by Japan but also claimed by China, which calls them the Diaoyu. Japanese defense chief Itsunori Onodera said in April that Chinese activity — including naval and coast guard patrols in the waters — “has expanded and accelerated” in recent years as it seeks to assert its territorial claims.
But the activity goes beyond military.
Beijing has also used its maritime militia to hassle Japanese fishermen and the Japan Coast Guard in a bid to better enforce its claims in the East China Sea, experts say.
If the Chinese military is not directly involved in the laser incidents, it could be directing — at some level — the maritime militia to target U.S. pilots.
Although the U.S. has not taking a position on the sovereignty of the Senkakus, it has repeatedly said that they fall under its treaty obligations to defend Japan’s territory if it is attacked.
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