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This project has been in the works for a long time, but apparently the laser beam shooting 747 has succeeded in it's first test by frying a missile while in flight. Woot woot for all the brains involved.
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<<<This is NOT meant to be a political statement>>> So Ronald Reagan wasn't wrong after all. He was just too early....way too early. Way way WAY too early.Charter member of the Turd Nuggets -
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The MDA (Missile Defense Agency) has been working on this for quite a long time. We have worked projects involving mobile units mounted on Hummers for ground/air warfare, and also on systems for UAVs, but this is the first time I've heard of a system on a commercial airliner. Cool stuff. Awesome to think we can now blow things out of the air using nothing more than light...Still plays with trucks....Comment
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They've been working on this for some time right here in LA. Actually within a misfire distance of the Hot Rod offices. TRW (Northrop Grumman) had been slowly decreasing it's size to get it into a plane. I drove one of the engineers who tried to explain it. He lost me. It's pretty amazing that it originally would barely fit into a giant hangar less than a decade ago.BS'er formally known as Rebeldryver
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Very weird, but back when I worked for the spring water company, I got a call from a company up in Vermont that wanted to buy lots of distilled water. We were the only company close enough to provide them the volume they wanted (thousands of gallons at a time).
This place was building the heat exchangers for the plane to keep it from melting into a lump in the sky when they used the laser.
It was a super high tech operation, clean rooms, the whole deal...all tucked into the woods in a tiny town in Vermont.
Pretty cool.
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AWESOME use of technology and ingenuity - When do we get "Tractor Beams" ?
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Another few years and we can use them pre-emptively instead of defensively......Comment
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