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Half of Afghanistan is poppy-fields anyway, just start a brushfire and you're there. |
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A variation of this weapon would be great for covert ops. Fill Saddam's cabinet members houses with some sort of hallucinogen, and watch the fun. |
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Weed gas was sorta featured in Mel Brook's History of The World - an Epic... um, undertaking |
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Does anyone know if you can defend against laser-guided bombs by shining laser pointers at them and confusing them? Because you really wouldn't want one of these to go astray. |
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I doubt you could by pointing the laser AT them. You might be able to lead one astray by pointing a laser, with the exact same wavelength and stuff that the missile is looking for, at another target. |
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A laser-guded missile will seek the brightest spot of light of the precise wavelength that it is set to look for. Due to the poor reflectivity of typical targets, any laser source is going to be many orders of magnitude brighter than the reflection from the target. If you shine a laser of the right wavelength directly at the missile, it will no doubt conclude that the laser source in your hand is the brightest thing around and therefore will guide itself straight at you. Duck and cover! |
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By the way, a stink bomb like [oxygon] describes would be an area-effect weapon. There's no point in having laser guidance (or any other kind of guidance for that matter) on such a weapon. Just launch it in the general direction of the target and run. |
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Well then, set up a big white panel a few miles from where you are, and fire a nice powerful 5-10 MW laser at the right wavelength at it. Or replace it with a mirror and increase your odds of success. |
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