Instead, the device appears to be an anti-satellite weapon, designed to blind sensitive optics and other sensors aboard a hostile spacecraft that dared to approach the Soviet orbiter.
Not cool.
The laser pistol was promised to be smaller and lighter than an outright space cannon, and those issues matter a lot in space. In fact, the goal was to make the laser pistol as small and light as a normal handgun.
I do not feel more comfortible.
> Instead, the device appears to be an anti-satellite weapon, designed to blind sensitive optics and other sensors aboard a hostile spacecraft that dared to approach the Soviet orbiter.
Not cool.
> The laser pistol was promised to be smaller and lighter than an outright space cannon, and those issues matter a lot in space. In fact, the goal was to make the laser pistol as small and light as a normal handgun.
I do not feel more comfortible.
Not cool.
I do not feel more comfortible.