The ZKZM-500 is the subject of a July 2018 article in the South China Morning Post describing a laser gun purported to have been developed by Chinese researchers of the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shaanxi.
[1] The article described the device in conflicting terms, both as "non-lethal" but also capable of "instant carbonisation of human skin and tissues".
[1] SCMP also published a video demonstrating what appeared to be a laser setting fire to various objects at tens of meters distance.
[2][3] Outside of China, universal doubt was expressed regarding the existence of such a weapon.
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