Posted on 09/26/2020 4:47:45 AM PDT by marktwain
I love that movie.
My friend got married not long after and we had the “walk down the aisle” outdoors.
So I had everyone in the processional singing “Doo Wah Diddy” in time — I did the main part of course :)
Another movie which could never be made due to “political correctness” The Left is a humorless lot, makes the Puritans look like “Animal House” (Another movie that couldn’t be made today)
There is more than a little wishful thinking in that article. ABL was never ready to be fielded.
There has always been a lot of very expensive and very risky (in the sense that the technological path chosen might not work out) development ahead of any large laser system.
It was initially for use against Theater Ballistic Missiles (SCUDs and the like) the potential for use against ICBMs is there but never tested. And, in order to work it had to hit the missile in boost phase. It is not effective against re-entry vehicles.
Do you really think Russia or China is going to let us permanently station a fleet of 747s with lasers over their territory? It is a whole lot easier to shoot down missiles with a theoretical laser and a keyboard than with a real laser and enemy missiles.
One of the things I never liked about it is that it was a chemical laser which inherently produces a very dirty beam that must be "cleaned up" by reflecting it back and forth through a series of mirrors inside the aircraft. Now think about this -- you have a laser beam powerful enough to burn through a missile at a range of several hundred miles bouncing around inside a flying aircraft. If anything goes wrong it is going to destroy the aircraft.
You do not want to be part of that crew.
Lasers are now useful,Buck Rogers has last laugh told ya.
Yep. And take the girls. Give them the "Aunt Jemima" treatment.
Sounds like something the Space Force will be looking into. Not sure about taking out ICBMs from orbit, but other satellites might be targeted.
The U.S. military technology in lasers is on the cusp of being significantly more useful in shooting down drones, mortar shells, and artillery shells. It is on the edge of providing a defense against hypersonic weapons.
The use of Stingray to deny optics to aimed and guided weaponry was nothing to sneeze at.
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