[Scott]

Tom,

Not to marginalize the video but its kind of a distraction from the message which is, it appears from a quick survey of coaches at the Newell site and my own that we are unwitting participants in military training missions. The level of energy necessary to do the damage discovered on glass at the distances being calculated is in the hundreds of watts. In my particular case the beam which hit my drivers side window passed in front of my face by no more than 3" or 4" These lasers are most likely I.R. and probably solid state. I am looking for people who have had damage on there own vehicles because I will be making a formal complain to the Dod and there Inspector Generals office.

Let me know if you have heard of people who have detected such damage.

Regards,

Mike

Military aircraft do not use combat lasers outside of combat, DoD MRTFB's, or authorized training ranges.  I highly doubt you were being lased by any military aircraft.  Even then, aircraft lasers are for designating targets for bombs, not to burn things.

And that laser you linked was tested on a military range 100 miles from anything on an unmanned stationary vehicle. When they test a weapon system like that, they have procedures, they don't just fly down the highway and burn cars for fun.