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: 1) by Rupert Pupnick on Wednesday February 06 2019, @03:03AM (1 child)
How big was this target that was 2km away? A typical range target 2 km away is very hard to hit with a sniper rifle. Anything else, forget it. This is not a very compelling test scenario for a “secret weapon” that’s supposed to make you miss a target...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:49AM
If the conditions were the same with and without this gadget, then it's a valid test (given a large enough amount of repetitions).
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