Directed Energy Weapon Downs Ballistic Missile

A**masher writes "In a test off the Califoria coast late last night, Boeing's Airborne Laser successfully destroyed a sub-launched ballistic missile. 'This was the first directed energy lethal intercept demonstration against a liquid-fuel boosting ballistic missile target from an airborne platform,' reported the Missile Defense Agency. It should be noted that destroying a liquid-fueled ballistic missile is generally considered easier than killing a solid-fueled equivalent due to the relative fragility of the fueling and other systems."

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Re:Popcorn and other practical applications

[Doc Ruby]

The greed in writing Star Wars "missile defense" contracts for the past 30 years has cost many $BILLIONS.

It's primary purpose was bankrupting the Soviet Union in an arms race, which it did, at the cost of bankrupting the US, which the US was able to (kinda) recover from, but the SU could not. We won the Cold War with the Star Wars budget as the atom bomb.

The greed today is even worse. The Cold War greed was sustainable, or at least survivable, working within limits. And the Cold War US economy had money to burn, so we did. But we have burnt all our money on a pyre of Terror War greed that has already crashed the economy worse than we could stand.

Counting on the greed being less than what we can stand is a recipe for sending the US the way of the Soviet Union. With the exact same weapon.

Re:Popcorn and other practical applications

[vegiVamp]

"Acceptable to pretty much everyone" ? Kindly take your psychopatic tendencies home, and don't speak for me, my friends, or quite a few more people than you'd care to feed.

Your "enemy threat" is another person's hero, and you might be surprised at how many otherwise quite civilised people would consider you and your psychopatic ideas a "threat". Guess we'll just have to take you out. Shame about your mother, wife and children, but hey.

Damn troll.