re: #55 goddamnedfrank

The story was likely bullshit since what your British friend describes would be a blatant violation of Protocol IV of the 1980 Geneva Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. They may have had some kind of low power target designating & range finding laser on board for the ship’s auto-cannon, but blinding pilots wasn’t a designed or approved use.

That very well may be. On the other hand, it wouldn’t have been the first time military people violated international laws and protocols.