I think the pentagon probably wants to change from supply lines based on ammunition and fuel(chemical energy) which needs to be transported to that based on space based energy.
What I mean is that, I don't think that they want to use the solar satellite as a directed energy weapon, but it could mean that they want to enable the use of vehicles and bases powered by transmitted power.
This could mean the coming of sci-fi stuff like mechwarriors and robotic weapons powered from space with directed energy weapons on them.
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I think the pentagon probably wants to change from supply lines based on ammunition and fuel(chemical energy) which needs to be transported
to that based on space based energy.
What I mean is that, I don't think that they want to use the solar satellite as a directed energy weapon, but it could mean that
they want to enable the use of vehicles and bases powered by transmitted power.
This could mean the coming of sci-fi stuff like mechwarriors and robotic weapons powered from space with directed energy weapons on them.