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Re:Raytheon High-Energy Laser by TeMPOraL on Sunday February 12, 2023 @08:40PM (#34769196)
> Humans are mostly water and if you got hit with this, it would suck, but it wouldn't kill you and you'd have plenty of time to find something to hide behind before it got bad enough that you'd lose a limb or something.

Complication: if you got hit with this, or even saw something far away being hit with this, chances are it would be the last thing you'll ever see, making finding something to hide behind that much more difficult.

Re:Raytheon High-Energy Laser by creato on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:51AM (#34770559)
If this were a real threat, laser safety goggles would be standard issue.
Re:Raytheon High-Energy Laser by TeMPOraL on Monday February 13, 2023 @02:31AM (#34771044)
They're not, because so far powerful enough lasers weren't used in the battlefield, in large part due to international ban on such use.

Anti-infantry lasers will likely continue to be banned for a while, but as anti-air and anti-armor ones get introduced, the risk of soldiers getting blinded off beam scatter will rise fast, so laser safety goggles might just become standard issue.

Or not. The problem is that laser safety goggles and screens are built to be opaque to specific frequencies. There may not be a way to have the goggles protect you from every laser frequency you're likely to encounter on the battlefield.

Re:Raytheon High-Energy Laser by edrxty on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:03AM (#34786005)
Typically these burning lasers are in the infrared spectrum and it's pretty easy to block the entirety of that. Visible lasers, particularly very powerful ones, tend to only fall in a handful of wavelengths due to the way they work so it's less of a problem than it sounds like it is.