The race is on. If memory serves me correctly the ABL was not supposed to be on line until 2008. Looks like that date will be moved up dramatically and don't be surprised if the gov't contracts for three or four of these babies. It appears that this will evolve into an offensive weapon very quickly. The application seems obvious. It isn't a stretch of the imagination to see Kim's palace just disappear from the face of the planet or perhaps see Iran's parliament ceasing to exist with Ahmanutjob inside.
The Democrats in Congress are trying to kill anything to do with lasers and the military. This 2006 election is critical to the future of our country.
anuary 15, 2006 There was once a time when a concrete wall on the battlefield meant that a soldier was both safe from bullets and invisible to the enemy. Thanks to the coming XM25 Advanced Airburst Weapon System and DARPA’s latest invention, the “Radar Scope”, the concrete wall has now been rendered useless on both counts. The new "Radar Scope" offers warfighters the very same x-ray vision with which SuperMan captivated a generation of youngsters – it can see through walls. The Radar Scope is a light-weight, low-cost, through-wall personnel detector that uses stepped-frequency radar to detect subtle changes in Doppler signature of the returned signal. Put simply, it is a motion detector that can see through walls.
Just use the laser to engage your target through the wall of the building, leaving a dead target and only a smoking hole in the wall of the building.
I'd like to see an order for 50!!