A new weapon installed on Russian warships can make enemy soldiers miss targets by blinding them, while also causing hallucinations and making them want to vomit.
Two Russian frigates were fitted with the new non-lethal dazzler-type weapon, the 5P-42 Filin (eagle-owl), the manufacturer’s representative told RIA Novosti. The weapon is designed to temporarily blind the enemy.
It creates a strobe-like effect that disrupts eyesight, seriously hampering the soldier’s ability to aim at night, Ruselectronics (which produces the weapon) stated.
During testing, volunteers used assault rifles, sniper rifles, and machine guns to shoot targets placed up to 2km away and protected by the device. They all had trouble aiming because they “couldn’t see the target.”
Forty-five percent of the volunteers reported feeling dizzy, nauseous, and disoriented. Twenty percent are said to have experienced hallucinations, described as “a ball of light moving in front of [our] eyes.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/450489-russian-navy-system-hallucinations/
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Tuesday February 05 2019, @06:37PM (9 children)
my first thought too - One of the new VR headsets with cameras etc....
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RS3 on Tuesday February 05 2019, @07:08PM (4 children)
If you weld at all, or generally you might be aware of the electronic self-darkening welding glass for welding helmets that's been around for 25 or more years. It's very fast, and I imagine it could be used to adaptively filter this new weapon's light.
(Score: 3, Funny) by acid andy on Tuesday February 05 2019, @07:15PM (3 children)
Peril-sensitive sunglasses?
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday February 05 2019, @08:40PM
Well that is one way to make sure you Don't Panic.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday February 05 2019, @11:36PM
I say we collaborate on a business plan and present it to Shark Tank.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @10:59AM
Hell yeah! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochromic_lens [wikipedia.org]
If somebody has their dad's cool 70s specs around, push a photo to wikimedia commons. They were not the least bit uncommon.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday February 05 2019, @07:27PM (3 children)
U.S. Army Awards Microsoft a $480 Million HoloLens Contract [soylentnews.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @08:29PM
U.S. Army Awards Microsoft a $480 Million HoloLens Contract
That's not gonna fix the problem, it's just going to make it worse, before the Blue Screen of (Literal) death does the Russians' job for them.
America the P0wned
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 05 2019, @08:37PM (1 child)
Do they expect M$ to pull a magic bunny out of its hat? The dev version of the hololens is a piece of crap and would likely be more of a liability. I don't foresee that drastically changing.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday February 05 2019, @08:55PM
HoloLens 2 could be announced this month:
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsofts-hololens-2-may-introduce-companys-ambitious-approach-mobile [windowscentral.com]
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