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The Chinese opted to equip their new Type 98
with a different countermeasure suite, based mainly on defeating
ATGM, by the use of directed high power laser. A typical is the
JD-3 "Dazzler" system comprises of laser warning devices, a
dome shaped sensor installed on the turret's roof-top, and a box
shaped Laser Self Defense Weapon (LSDW) which "fires" a
laser beam at the illuminating source, either a tank gunner,
helicopter or missile launcher. The system employs two modes of
operation – the low power mode is used at the general direction of
the threat, in a search pattern designed to locate the target's
optics. Once locked on a target, the laser switches to high power
mode, to defeat the target by blinding the operator or saturating
its electro-optical circuits.
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