Contractor Proposes Laser Rifles for US Military

The Fryar writes "Well, folks, it looks like the future really is now! It seems the Defense Review has uncovered a submission by Stavatti, a sort of "free market" defense contractor, to the military for a laser rifle. The submission comes in response to the Army's LFLAN requirement - the quest to provide "Light Fighter Lethality After Next" technology, or lasers/phasers/sabers/advanced weapons for use some 20 years down the road. Needless to say, I also considered the category "Star Wars Prequels" for this article."

Comments

Re:Cure disease? Explore space? Feed the hungry?

[FunOne]

Yea, because "Cure Disease" is an easy, simple thing to do that we just refuse to because we're too busy killing people.

The Hungry have people TAKING food from them, there isn't a problem with enough or getting it to them (except for that last step).

Space doesn't have enough tangible benefits to it.

War is the other tool of diplomacy, if we (America) can be better at it, better equiped, better trained, and better informed then anyone else then we have a leg up in everything. And the problem with an extra-American hyper technology-driven society is that Japan is still routinely ignored by the slashdot crowd.

Re:They say it to Israel all the time

[sigep_ohio]

If these countries were full of white christians we wouldnt be bombing/invading them)

yes, but maybe they wouldn't be ignorant/illiterate hateful people either. and maybe those in power wouldn't misuse religious text to get said illiterate peoples to do their bidding(ie. suicide bombings).

In all honesty though I don't think it matters who lives in the middle east. America tends to take the attitude of don't mess with us, but you better let us mess with you. We "exploit" lesser nations for their cheap labor and natural materials, then expect the people of these countries to love us.
I don't think terrorism is the answer, but it is not hard to imagine that some weak minded individuals will think terrorism is the only option.

Re:TOTALLY ILLEGIAL

[ihatewinXP]

Latest Wired has a bit about the new Oakley goggles for US terrorists that protect the eyes from laser guidance systems on jets. Since the Iraqi people don't have Oakleys (or water for that matter) I guess there might be some negative effects that we will never read about in our papers. And of course the 'liberated' Iraqis will never read about it either since by then they will be blind!

We could care less about the Geneva Convention unless we are using it to spin against whomever we are against at the moment. In 1988 did we care about Saddam gassing his own people? No we sold him the stuff to do it. In 2003 he is yet again breaking the Geneva Convention and its an issue. Funny but I don't think a "preventative war" fits anywhere in the "Rules' of War" (though strangely enough it does come up repeatedly under 'Imperialism").

Re:Mods, do your job.

[z_gringo]

You are the fucking troll, you pathetic piece of shit!

fuck you!