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Chinese Lasers Blind US Satelites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-not-look-directly-into-laser-beam-with-your-remaining-eye dept.

SniperClops writes, "China has fired high-power lasers at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory in what experts see as a test of Chinese ability to blind the spacecraft, according to sources." The article mentions the reluctance of the U.S. administration to talk about this "asymmetric" effort by the Chinese military.

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  1. Re:Seeing Red by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Language evolves, just like everything else. You can look that up in your local town sentry.

  2. Re:Seeing Red by martinussen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Untrue! Where I come from, I seem to recall that we spell it "kulør".