I was reading up over the weekend on some issues related to airborne strobes and physiological effects on pilots. In the course of that I came across a reference to German searchlights during WW2 being designed to strobe and thus disorient bomber pilots.
Being generally interested, I did a bit of googling, and did find some historical papers describing this being used on ground defences...
http://www.tankmuseum.org/museum-onl...ject-e1949-353
Canal Defence Light (CDL) Tanks - Tank Encyclopedia
But I couldn't find any sources describing anything being used against aircraft, beyond some IR groundschool notes that don't list their references.
Does anybody know if this was actually the case? If so, I'd be interested to read about it.
G