Defence secretary reveals details of recent incursions as he warns UK is facing ‘new era of threat’ from hostile countries
A Russian spy ship has entered British waters and shone lasers at military pilots, the defence secretary has said, as he warned the UK was facing a “new era of threat” from hostile countries.
John Healey told reporters on Wednesday the “deeply dangerous” move was being taken “extremely seriously” by the government, adding the UK would continue monitoring the ship and had “military options ready” should the vessel change course.
He said the surveillance ship had crossed in and out of the UK’s exclusive economic zone multiple times in recent weeks, not for the first time this year.
One of those laser weapons that are supposed to take drones down or a laser pointer?
Apparently it effectively blinded fighter pilots in a separate incident, so no, not a consumer device.
You know I’ve never tried to track a jet with a handheld laser pointer but I imagine it’s not easy so I’m going to guess it’s some sort of fixed device like perhaps a range finder for a deck gun or ciws.
I’m pretty sure it’s just a bunch of guys each awkwardly holding like 40 of those green laser pointers off AliExpress. They all wave them around vaguely in the direction of the aircraft and figure one of them is gonna hit.
Yes, but they’ve put a fancy canopy thing over it to make it look like a seewiz
Yantar (yes it sounds like reptar and I can’t help picturing it as a hokey dinosaur either) just got two new domes on deck. They could be discotechs with laser light shows.
Perhaps mounting a laser and a scope on a stick could improve accuracy. Also never done it and I assume those jets fly rather fast, but if you can estimate the flight path, oncoming planes should be an easy target