Laser Shoots Down Artillery Shell In Flight

An anonymous reader writes "The Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser is a joint project between the US Army and the Israeli Defense Ministry, with much of the work being done by TRW. Tuesday they had a spectacular success when they shot an artillery shell out of the air."

Comments

Re:More details please

[TheSync]

Of course, lasers are the perfect peacetime weapon...

Seriously, I imagine the Israelis are looking at this for intercepting the occasional terrorist mortar or shell. If it was an actual war, Israel would nuke them first.

Re:Israel?

[GoatPigSheep]

I see nothing wrong with the Jews getting their land back... However it's hard to calculate exactly how big "their land" is. Do we refer to the torah and make a rough estimate? From what I have observed, the country of Israel is already much bigger than any previous Jewish kingdom. And yet there is still an insistance to build settlements on areas that are palestinian.

USA wins! All your countries are belong to us!

[lugonn]

Man! Are we leavin' every other country in the military dustbin or what? I can't think of any country that can wage war with America anymore. Don't know if that's good or bad, but I'm sure glad to be an American.

Sure a terrorist can reek some havoc, but they'll never "win" anything. We can level whole military infastuctures without cuasing collateral damage anymore. WEEEEEEEEE! I can melt your tanks and radars without using bombs, so no more hiding them in schools you lousy commie-muslim-leftists!

Re:Read the test plan...

[Frank of Earth]

Honestly, peoples hostility to this program in current time has me baffled.

Probably just snooty French men who are afraid they won't be under the umbrella of protection that the US will be able to offer in 10-15 years.

It will be pretty funny how quick France and these other little puke countries get on board with the US when we threaten to remove our anti-nuke satelite defense system from their homeland.

Sarcasm, version 1.0

[vandan]

Why do America and Israel need an anti-missile laser? No-one would want to send a missile at them; they're such fair, fun-loving people.

Re:Israel?

[superyooser]

Let me clarify something quickly. I mean no offense against the Spanish or any Latin peoples. My only intent is to show how ridiculous it would be if Spain were to claim that Florida was its "occupied territory."

And yeah, the analogy has a big hole. Spain is obviously a real country. Palestine (in modern news media parlance) is more closely comparable with Atlantis: Nobody can agree on where either of them is actually located or if they even exist.

Pax Americana, baby!

[ccmay]

Why understand when you can just force things unto others?

Sorry, I don't waste time trying to understand inferior savage cultures anymore. Cultural relativism and wooly-minded 'diversity' worship died on a sunny September morning last year. It's might-makes-right from here on out.

We are great! We are Americans!

Yes we are. The best there has ever been, by practically any measure.

Tremble before our might!

Yes. Please do, and learn to live with Pax Americana. And thank your lucky stars it's us and not the Nazis or the Chinese that will be calling the shots from here on out.

-ccm