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Anti-Air Searchlights at the Rock of Gibraltar, WW2, 1942 (infosec.pub)
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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Just to have some numbers: A German 150 cm FLAK Spotlight contained a carbon arc lamp with a power of 15 kW (200 A @ 78 V) generating light with an intensity of 1 Gcd (1,000,000,000 cd).

Wikipedia.org: Scheinwerfer

Flugzeug-lexikon.de – Flakscheinwerfer

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago

Super bright is somewhat understated.