“Once the shooting starts, every human on the battlefield will be dead.”

Let's see:

Syrian Civil War
Turk-Syrian Kurd Conflict
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Yemen Civil War
Ongoing war in Afghanistan
Iran flexing muscle in the Strait of Hormuz
Constant conflict between Sunni and Shia
All Arabs wanting to exterminate all Jews

What's a few drones among friends?
 
And as soon as you learn to take out armed drones effectively they become weapon delivery baskets. Might as well put a bow on it.
 
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A friend wants to know what wave length laser they are using.
I can't find a number for that. Damage potential is more directly tied to laser intensity -- and target-magnified intensity at that, rather than source intensity.

Depending on the target optical sensor type, 16,000 - 40,000 mW/cm2 is the general (object-magnified) level for permanent damage. This of course rules out "laser pointers" as the article calls them, and puts them firmly in the hand-held laser category.

It is my belief that it is much more likely that the lasers are being used to temporarily "blind" the optical sensor through the "bloom" cause by the sensor's focal magnification of the laser's intensity. A sensor targeted nearly directly will bloom such that not only the laser operator but most of the people around him are obscured.

Just my $0.02 worth ...
 
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It is my belief that it is much more likely that the lasers are being used to temporarily "blind" the optical sensor through the "bloom" cause by the sensor's focal magnification of the laser's intensity. A sensor targeted nearly directly will bloom such that not only the laser operator but most of the people around him are obscured.

So you're talking about a dazzler.
Fun fact - those tacky yard decorations that project red and green dots all over your house - they run on red and green lasers that greatly exceed the 1mW limit imposed on pointing devices. The reason they spread so many dots is that the light is squirted through a pair of diffraction plates, but inside of the device is still a laser powerful enough to blind sensors. 2 lasers, actually...
And after Christmas, you can pick them up for $15 on clearance with all the power supply and driver circuit you need to do interesting things.

Just imagine that $100mil next-gen fighter jet being rendered temporarily blind by insurgents using this sort of "inventive" attack - which is immediately obvious to anybody with a little education in electronics and an ax to grind. Not that I would endorse such a thing, but it's fun to think about.
 
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