AR1, I did some work with lasers in the navy a few years back. Different applications, but I recall one of the navy laser boffins I worked with had stumbled across some of the audio recordings of the 80s trials years earlier.
It stuck in his memory, as the test subject was heard saying "blimey that's bright" (insert colourful langauge accordingly), and painted quite a picture of what must have being going on in the cockpit (the audio was from a fast jet trial ac, hunter I think, but memory may fail me).
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