Posted on 02/16/2002 4:17:58 PM PST by Pokey78
ZOT!!!
That would be first on my list too. Second thing would be a tour of area 51, or it's new location.
Sooner or later some traitor a$$-O will sell the technology to your enemy and you end up looking down the barrel of your own weapon.
Wish there was an end to that...
NO I'm not advocating disarmament!!!
Amazing how John knew about this stuff almost 2000 years ago... ;-)
For the "don't ask, don't tell" military, how about "Poof?"
The United States government first started experimenting with lasers in the early nineteen sixties. The Russians were working along the same lines, but never had the kind of resources that we had to do the same things.
The problem, as the article highlighted, was power supply miniaturization. Now a recent article that we saw posted to FR spoke of an Air Force R&D project to build an airborne atomic reactor. Now why would anyone want to build an airborne reactor just so it could fit it into a widebody?
Do the math, folks. Imagine a COIL or one of more elaborate devices with the punch of a small nuclear reactor to provide power.
THEL has been around for some time.
....so long that the services spend advertising dollars hawking their supposed skills at THEL to the Pentagon and the Congress.
I strongly suspect that there are far more elaborate black projects underway, possibly involving plasma weaponry. And yes, the Stealth that crashed in Serbia back in 1999 was an older model: the new stuff is so far out we have no idea as to its capabilities (personally, I think that we've been testing manned hypersonic vehicles for some time now). One of the most talked about vehicles is something called "AURORA", which is supposedly an urban legend that got its start when the name appeared as an Air Force line item back in the eighties. However....
....while our friend AURORA may be named something else altogether, there is a general consensus that the SR-71 isn't in the spy plane business anymore for a dadgum good reason. It's been replaced, and probably by something like the aircraft pictured above, which is said to move at suborbital heights and at hypersonic speeds.
In short, there is a LOT of wierd stuff out at Groom Lake. No one is allowed near there for a set of very good reasons. And of course, they also keep other things at Area 51....
Watch the Skies!
Be Seeing You,
Chris
America's lazer fighting blimps bring death to terrorists from high altitude.
Honest,at the Kroger!
And if this is what they're telling us about, imagine what we have that they aren't telling us about!
BUMP!!!
Next thing you know we will have airborne tankers
refueling the laser ships with their weaponry juice!
Sounds cool to me!
Found this:
What's a Tactical High-Energy Laser? By Frank Sietzen Special to SPACE.com posted: 12:02 pm ET 26 September 2000 |
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The laser beam system used to shoot down the two missiles during Friday's test is called a Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL). THEL is a short-range, ground-based air-defense system under test and development by TRW Inc. for the U.S. Army and the Israel Ministry of Defense. The device uses a high-energy, chemically-generated laser beam to shoot down rocket attacks. Israel has an urgent need to protect civilians and others living along its northern borders. The THEL laser system is housed in several semitrailer-sized containers. THEL is made up of three systems: a control system, which tracks the incoming missiles while in flight and is used to aim the laser system; a pointer-tracker system that contains the firing system and the laser itself -- a deuterium fluoride chemical laser. Other facts:
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It's gonna be a full airplane!
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