The ZKZM-500 is the subject of a July 2018 article in the South China Morning Post describing a laser gun purported to have been developed by Chinese researchers of the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shaanxi. The article described the device in conflicting terms, both as “non-lethal” but also capable of “instant carbonisation of human skin and tissues”.
Outside of China, universal doubt was expressed regarding the existence of such a weapon.
SCMP probably propaganda video: [0:45] https://youtu.be/07XpBUzlxxE?si=
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Can it be mounted to the head of a shark? Asking for a friend.
Relevant debunk by styropyro: https://youtu.be/EdURyWZD9tk?si=rZY9aMx9fd3FLX4Z
non-lethal
Can instantly carbonize skin and tissue
So it burns off all your skin, but you survive?
Fuck that noise! 😧
This weapon is extremely dangerous if you point it directly at someone’s eyes.
You don’t need to point it at eyes to blind someone. At these power levels a diffuse reflection from a matte surface is enough to blind. Basically, anyone accidentally seeing the laser’s light spot without protective goggles tuned to the specific wavelength of that laser will go blind. Laser weapons are ridiculously dangerous to anyone around, including the user themself.
They only make sense in space warfare where a.) power levels used measure in megawatts so that going blind is the least of your problems, b.) not much surfaces around for the beam to reflect from, c.) windows on warships don’t make sense—in fact, crews on spaceships make little sense, too.
Have you never seen Moonraker?
Such things should be banned! Imagine, burning someone with a laser!
A .22 is also “non-lethal” if you aim it right.
That last picture is clowny as FUCK
Literally a Chinese burn gun 🙃
blinding or dazzling, not burning at any range past a few feet. see the old styropyro video linked above.
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