There's a small chance I could be wrong (I've been wrong twice before), but when you've been around as long as I have and you've seen so much crap hyped by companies wanting another round of financing you learn to watch for obvious clues that things don't smell right. In this case hyping the use of the term force field which it obviously isn't is a huge clue they are trying to sell us on a pile of crap (despite the sold-called successful Army tests).
Granted a point defense system that works is of obvious use, but the fact that they are not selling it as a point defense system tells me it simply doesn't work well and they are following the age-old tactic that snake oil salesmen have always used by dressing up crap and calling it filet mignon.
The fact is that all TV news organizations now happily take "news footage" created by corporate marketing departments and show it as their own news. In this case I'll bet the news footage was created by the Israeli company including the commentary by the news caster.
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There's a small chance I could be wrong (I've been wrong twice before), but when you've been around as long as I have and you've seen so much crap hyped by companies wanting another round of financing you learn to watch for obvious clues that things don't smell right. In this case hyping the use of the term force field which it obviously isn't is a huge clue they are trying to sell us on a pile of crap (despite the sold-called successful Army tests). Granted a point defense system that works is of obvious use, but the fact that they are not selling it as a point defense system tells me it simply doesn't work well and they are following the age-old tactic that snake oil salesmen have always used by dressing up crap and calling it filet mignon. The fact is that all TV news organizations now happily take "news footage" created by corporate marketing departments and show it as their own news. In this case I'll bet the news footage was created by the Israeli company including the commentary by the news caster.
No, just Swedish bondage porn. Mind you, I'm not complaining...