Factory Testing of Airborne Laser Cannon Completed

Acid-F1ux writes "Lockheed Martin has completed factory testing of the optical benches for the Airborne Laser's Beam Control/Fire Control (BC/FC) system. The Airborne Laser (ABL) is the first megawatt-class laser weapon system to be carried on a specially configured 747-400F aircraft, designed to autonomously detect, track and destroy hostile ballistic missiles."

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Never saw the...

[zogger]

...pictures. Have you? Why weren'tthey released, they released all the other pictures, but NOT the purple flash ones as far as I know. As far as I know, again, they were never released, NOR given back to the photographer, and according to what I remember at the time, the reporters who saw them, along with the quotes from the nasa worker who first saw them and arranged for them to be transported by special jet back to texas, they were QUITE extraordinary.

REMEMBER this little gem. Remeber how the government SWORE up and down and sideways with all kinza tame scientists and cia analysis that TWA 800 had an exploding fuel tank, despite all the eyewitness testimony. Are you aware they very quietly admitted they were totally wrong last year, BUT, offered no other information about it as to cause or "who did it?". That story appeared like in two paragraphs on page 16 then disappeared again, leaving 99.99% of the people out there stuck with the impression in their minds that the "magic exploding fuel tank" story is still true facts, when it obviously ain't and they admit it now. Just like the magic 9-11 burning towers all falling perfectly down, despite no other similar occurrence ever with any similar towers and fire, despite actual eyewitness testimony and recorded video and audio of firefighters IN the burning buildings swearing there were set charges used, and despite the videos that you can see the poofs as the charges go off. they swear it's from burning kerosen fuel. Uh huh. ande building 7 was hit with which plane again, to have this fuel in it? Oh ya, IT WASN'T HIT.. Yes, that's available to view, but the mass conditioning media is not bringing that stuff up, nor is the 9-11 whitewash commision.

I REMEMBER details like that, crackheads don't remember squat. Crackheads deny what is in front of them, they can't see the elephant in the living room,they'll even deny it vigorously, just like career alkys.

What happened to "SDI won't work"?

[SysKoll]

The grey beards among us will remember with a chuckle that "experts" and "researchers" and "respected academics" predicted utter and complete failure for all onboard-laser efforts.

Don't you remember all these naysayers about "SDI won't work" and "you can't make mobile high power lasers"?

I wonder, I really wonder why so many very clever people wasted their time "proving" that it couldn't be done while lowly engineers were busy making it work. Think about what a horrendous, freakin's waste of human energy this was: Clever people fighting to prove that something cannot be done while others just do it. A horrible doubt suddenly assails me: Could it be a case of ideological blindness?

Naaaah. Our academics are very open-minded. They wouldn't oppose a project just because it's pushed by politicians they dislike. That would be so low, so crass, so intellectually corrupt... Whew! The horrible doubt is gone. And now, if you'd excuse me, I have an appointment with Santa Claus.