laser pen

[Redrum]

hmm a tad worrying I use a laser pen with ma kittens ( that I got from pets at home)

we use them in the operating theatre

These will be the legal low power ones that you use for pointing at something in the same room. The article says the one this guy had has a range of 5 miles, meaning its a very powerful and most likely illegal one.

That guy must have impressive aim.

With the powerful lasers, instead of just a dot on the thing you are pointing at, you get an actual beam, so aiming is actually very easy as you just hold the button down and move the beam around.


I've got a powerful laser as well and like the guy in the article, I was curious to see how far it would go, but instead of a police helicopter, I choose a tree in an empty field about a mile away. Shining it into the cockpit of an aircraft is retarded.

 

[Begbie]

Be lucky he didn't make one from a dvd RW and a maglite he would have burned the helicopter down.

Impressive aim!

 

[Dist]

Be lucky he didn't make one from a dvd RW and a maglite he would have burned the helicopter down.

Impressive aim!

I didnt think they were that powerfull, After all a dvd drive doesnt burn holes though the dvd so why would it damage a helicopter? I thought the best a dvd drive laser could do is pop balloons and light matches.

 

[Biohazard]

I fail to see how that would 'light up the whole cockpit'.

 

[Lashout_UK]

I fail to see how that would 'light up the whole cockpit'.

It could if it refracted off the canopy plexi and interior - but with a laser like that, even if it just got the pilot's eyes it's enough to really dazzle you and make you cover your eyes - which is all it needs to do.

 

[_Jimlad_]

it was a silly thing to do, but i bet he was not thinking 'lets blind the pilot and crash the chopper' sending him down for 4 months is a joke! - he's a silly fool but putting him behind bars in my view is crazy!

 

[tem07]

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[Adsta]

a laser pen is a laser pen you use the laser to laser things that are not a laser altho you can point the laser at a laser but thats just stupid

yes random comment for the evening enjoy

 

[Energize]

I have heard this on the news before; terrorists using it on passenger planes?

Passenger planes are flown on autopilot almost all the flight so it wouldn't be an effective attack.

 

[Red Porsche]

They are used on guns as laser sights, more accurate and easier to use compared to iron sights.

 

[benjo plz.]

^ no not really, they're just easier to use (they're also used in scopes like kitesights for ranging)

instead of just a dot on the thing you are pointing at, you get an actual beam

lul wut?

 

[Dist]

They are used on guns as laser sights, more accurate and easier to use compared to iron sights.

Less reliable as they require batteries and have electronics that can get damaged. I would say iron sights are more accurate as they can be used in all light conditions at all ranges, lasers have limited range, and are not always visible. Also as for ease of use, i would say looking through iron sights is just as easy as pressing a on/off toggle for the laser.

The lasers used for zeroing are usefull though, simply place them in the barrel, tighten it up, then adjust the aiming device untill its pointing at the laser dot.

 

[benjo plz.]

The lasers used for zeroing are usefull though, simply place them in the barrel, tighten it up, then adjust the aiming device untill its pointing at the laser dot.

not very useful if they want to hit anything.

 

[Dist]

not very useful if they want to hit anything.

what do you mean?

 

[benjo plz.]

what do you mean?

there are various reasons, I guess the main one is that bullets don't travel in a straight line, they fall, so using a laser to zero a scope is useless. The only way to do it is manually through trial and error.

 

[Dist]

there are various reasons, I guess the main one is that bullets don't travel in a straight line, they fall, so using a laser to zero a scope is useless. The only way to do it is manually through trial and error.

And long range weapons where the effect of mavity on a bullet matters are the only weapons that need their sights zeroed?

Smaller rifles fired at shorter distances need their scope to be spot on just as much as higher caliber rifles, and its these sorts of a weapons that a laser used to zero the scope can be very usefull.

 

[Red Porsche]

Less reliable as they require batteries and have electronics that can get damaged. I would say iron sights are more accurate as they can be used in all light conditions at all ranges, lasers have limited range, and are not always visible. Also as for ease of use, i would say looking through iron sights is just as easy as pressing a on/off toggle for the laser.

The lasers used for zeroing are usefull though, simply place them in the barrel, tighten it up, then adjust the aiming device untill its pointing at the laser dot.

I was thinking about the red dot sight from cod4, shows my lack of real world gun knowledge lol.

 

[Begbie]

I didnt think they were that powerfull, After all a dvd drive doesnt burn holes though the dvd so why would it damage a helicopter? I thought the best a dvd drive laser could do is pop balloons and light matches.

Geeky sarcasm failed :\

 

[benjo plz.]

And long range weapons where the effect of mavity on a bullet matters are the only weapons that need their sights zeroed?

Smaller rifles fired at shorter distances need their scope to be spot on just as much as higher caliber rifles, and its these sorts of a weapons that a laser used to zero the scope can be very usefull.

all guns need to be zeroed but boresighters are crap, and the gun should be zeroed *properly* by the person who's going to be puling the trigger .

I was thinking about the red dot sight from cod4, shows my lack of real world gun knowledge lol.

reflex scopes don't work quite how you think

 

[TheOtherOption]

Have to say I have toyed around with a similar green laser that's primarily intended for airsoft rifles. Took it with me one new years a number of years back in London and was shining it around on all sorts of things out to quite a distance - was funny seeing it drown out the puny red laser someone had.