Air Force Looks To Laser-Proof Its Weapons

slugo writes "This wired.com article has probably the coolest laser destruction video you have ever seen. The video shows the Israeli and US Air Force working on laser defense systems. The US Air Force is starting to look for ways to laser-proof its bombs and missiles — with spray-on coatings, no less. They think everyone is going to figure this laser thing out sometime and need a defense against what they are already very good at — shooting things out of the sky with a laser."

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Re:Best Offense Is a Good Defense

[Doc Ruby]

Frankly, its none of your business what is being said in the classified literature about the results of laser testing.

You start off accusing me (falsely) of a straw man, then end off lecturing me in some straw man about my business with classified laser testing literature.

What a bunch of "malarkey".

The Star Wars tests for 25 years have consistently failed to shoot down anything except the most carefully controlled test targets. The tests are usually faked, propaganda to keep spending those $BILLIONS on a defense system that is instead provocative, and worse than useless. That wasted money spent on crony defense contractors is all that Start Wars is ever good for.

But you ridiculous Republicans keep demanding it. You've been wrong about everything else, especially with such huge price tags, so why shouldn't you insist on more Star Wars boondoggles?

Frankly, you should stop talking like your made-up pronouncements on national "defense" and what business Americans have in debunking it are worth listening to.

Re:Best Offense Is a Good Defense

[Doc Ruby]

"star wars" "missile defense" (failed OR failure)

Secret tests have succeeded? Well, I have a secret plan to end the war. Just like Nixon did in Vietnam in 1968.

You Republicans don't even have new lies.