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 shortscreen on Tuesday February 05 2019, @09:12PM (3 children)
People laughed about Trump's space force, but it seems Russia is also preparing for the Zentradi invasion.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday February 05 2019, @09:50PM
Now I've got that damned Zentradi music in my head. Thanks.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by pipedwho on Wednesday February 06 2019, @06:42AM (1 child)
Stage lights flashing, the feeling’s smashing...
We just need the SDF1.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:45AM
All you get is a PDP-11.