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Laser Weapon Shoots Down Airplanes In Test
airshowfan writes "Boeing's directed-energy weapons (a.k.a. frickin' laser beams) have been getting some attention lately. The Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) is a C-130 that famously burned a hole through a car's hood, and the YAL-1 AirBorne Laser is a 747 that shoots a laser from its nose that is powerful enough to bring down an ICBM. But even cooler is the Mobile Active Targeting Resource for Integrated eXperiments (MATRIX), a laser that is mounted on a truck (which probably costs less than a 747, but who knows) and that can shoot down small aircraft, as shown in the picture on this article. (The Laser Avenger supposedly also has this capability). We live in the future!"
Ahh, I love the smell of desperate, defensive conservatives in the morning. It smells like... victory.
Fail. I'm not desperate, didn't support the Iraq War and I'm not a conservative. I'm just a middle of the road American that's rather sick of the partisan asshats in both parties :)
Thanks for the refreshing dose of stereotyping though. It probably makes it easier for you to avoid critical thinking when you can pigeonhole those who disagree with you.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I love it. For pointing out the folly of mass bombardment I'm labeled a troll. I wonder if it was a pissed off white trash redneck conservative who disagreed with me or a aging hippie liberal douche that couldn't bother to read what I wrote?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.