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Northrop to Sell Laser Shield Bubble for Airports

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the charge-the-ion-cannon dept.

NeoPrime writes "CNN Money web site has a story about Northrop Grumman forecasting development of a laser shield 'bubble' for airports and other installations in the United States within 18 months. The system will be called Skyguard — a joint venture with Israel and the U.S. Army. It will have the capability to generate a shield five kilometers in radius."

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  1. Re:Who needs this by Eunuchswear · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hamas - kills Israeli soldiers, takes one captive.

    Israel - kidnaps palestinan politicans, kills > 40 civilians.

    Who are the terrorists?

    --
    Watch this Heartland Institute video
  2. Neat. Except. . . by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 1, Troll
    From my understanding, lasers capable of destroying weapons can only fire a few times before they run out of juice.

    So while this is a neat idea and all, what's to stop a guy from firing a dozen tennis balls at a target followed by an actual bomb? Every solution has a counter-solution.

    Not that it matters. Nobody but the U.S. and Zionist secret services (and the dupes they con into doing it for them), are lobbing bombs at civilian targets anyway. --All to A) Rape countries. B) Sell expensive weapon systems, C) To consolidate and extend psychotic police state powers, and D) To snatch all the really good chairs while playing, 'Musical Apocalypse'.

    Laser bubbles? Gimme a break.

    You want to stop airplanes from blowing up? Try routing out the secret government and stringing up all the scuzzy little Neocons and Zionist cultists who have the world in a stranglehold.

    Allen Moore had the right idea.


    -FL