https://www.rt.com/news/431476-china-laser-rifle-prototype/ Pew, pew! China develops AK-47-sized low lethality ‘laser rifle’
Published time: 2 Jul, 2018 12:25 Edited time: 3 Jul, 2018 10:44 Get short URL <https://on.rt.com/98xg> [image: Pew, pew! China develops AK-47-sized low lethality ‘laser rifle’]Chinese armed police and Russian national guards take part in a joint counter-terrorism drill. © / Reuters Chinese Armed Police units may soon have a new weapon, a portable laser beam that can reach targets from a kilometer away and is powerful enough to set flammable things on fire. Although classified as “non-lethal,” the infrared laser projector can “burn through clothes in a split second … If the fabric is flammable, the whole person will be set on fire,” according to a South China Post report <http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2153310/china-brings-star-wars-life-laser-ak-47-could-set-fire>. The device is called ZKZM-500 and has been prototyped by the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shaanxi province.
