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Recall that paintball is a team game with the use of markers that shoot balls with paint that break when hitting an obstacle and coloring it.

A more modern type of paintball is laser tag. It differs from ordinary paintball in that instead of balls with paint, laser beams and sensors are used to detect hits.

The weapon in laser paintball is as realistic as possible, it is necessary to reload, change stores, and hits are fixed automatically, so in a team game a referee is no longer required to fix the hits of balls with paints.

Also, the laser always hits, unlike some balls that fly back and do not open when hit. Laser paintball can be played by girls and children, since laser beams when hit do not create pain. Also, there are more types of weapons in laser paintball than in classical, since the laser mechanism can be built into any device.

Similar to the laser tag principle is used in the military systems of simulated shooting and defeat, which appeared in the late 1970s in the US Army as a way to simulate combat, training and training soldiers. For this purpose, MILES (Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System) was developed. It included special emitters fixed on combat weapons. The signals of the emitters picked up the sensors mounted in the uniforms of each of the participants. After quite a long existence (until the early 1990s), the MILES system was replaced by its improved version of the MILES-2000, which performed well in 1998 at Fort Benning.

At the moment, military systems for imitating shooting and defeat are produced by companies such as SAAB, Cubic and RUAG. Russia and Belarus also have their own designs (including tank modifications).

It is also worth noting that laser imitation systems of tactical combat are the main means of specialized training of military personnel of NATO countries.