Is the power of strobe lights just an illusion based on hype, like Maskelyne's whirling spray? Or a significant new weapon that will be ignored or shelved because people are either ignorant of it or don't believe. However, in spite of the book's claims, the dazzle light were never actually built (although a prototype was once tested). A barrage of light to confuse and blind the enemy bombers, which Maskelyne dubbed Whirling Spray.įisher claims that this radical defensive shield of light was highly effective and was a major reason why the Suez Canal remained open for the duration of the war. These powerful searchlights, containing 24 different spinning beams, projected a swirling, cartwheeling confusion of light up to nine miles into the sky. Maskelyne came up with the unorthodox idea of constructing 21 'dazzle lights' along the length of the Canal. Fuller was one of the few who appreciated what the CDL might have achieved. All laser shots deplete a single shield layer, but some (Heavy or Hull) can do additional damage when shields. The center has so far made a 25-kilowatt laser that can target a ballistic missile during its terminal phase at a maximum distance of 5 kilometers. Lasers can only be shot down by Mark II Defense Drones. The scientist also said DURGA II is to be integrated with land-, sea- and air-based The Laser Science and Technology Centre at Delhi was the lead laboratory in developing laser weapons. Like any projectile weapon, lasers can miss. Once all shields are down, lasers can hit rooms and deal system, hull, and crew damage. Each laser shot temporarily removes a shield layer. And those that had heard of it had trouble believing that a simple flickering light could have any effect. Lasers are general-purpose energy weapons. 'Even the Generals who should have used it did not know what the tank could do,' complained its inventor, Marcel Mitzakis. On the one hand, the power of the CDL was kept extremely secret.

There seem to have been two reasons for this.

Over three hundred CDLs were built - using Matilda, Churchill and Grant tanks - and might have played a major role after D-Day.

It produces a 'squarer' pulse and is significantly more effective than earlier strobes. However, with its mechanical shutter, the technology was much more primitive than the strobing Xenon light developed by Peak Beam. If it had been used at much closer range then more dramatic effects - dizziness, loss of balance and the infamous nausea - might also have been observed. Although the CDL did not have the kind of disabling effect that the light-based personnel immobilization device currently being developed by Peak Beam for the US Army has, the type of disorientation seems quite similar. Spraying the area with machine-gun fire would not work either the armored reflector of the searchlight kept functioning, even after being hit repeatedly.

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