[iontheball]

Excuse me, but when the DEW starts a fire, it is then a fire like any other and therefore blue items are not magically protected as you seem to believe.
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Excuse me, you are telling me not to believe my lying eyes. Then, explain the plastic blue trash cans, the blue umbrellas, the blue roofs in Lahaina and the blue VW bus that didn’t incinerate?

[higgmeister]

Excuse me, you are telling me not to believe my lying eyes. Then, explain the plastic blue trash cans, the blue umbrellas, the blue roofs in Lahaina and the blue VW bus that didn’t incinerate?

I am telling you that a directed energy weapon is not something that is a constant beam that is directed across of thousands of acres of land, mysteriously burning everything, yet allowing anything that was painted blue to be unharmed.

Any so called DEW would ignite items in only a few square feet and the resulting fire after a period can spread like any other fire.   Any photograph that has tricked you into believing an impossibility, is faked or if you were there on sight to see it for yourself, would be easily understood.

Even the Airborne Laser that was posted above was cancelled because it was nonpractical.

The YAL-1 with a low-power laser was test-fired in flight at an airborne target in 2007. A high-energy laser was used to intercept a test target in January 2010, and the following month, successfully destroyed two test missiles. Funding for the program was cut in 2010 and the program was canceled in December 2011.

Airborne Laser Test Bed (ALTB), has been placed into long-term storage at a facility informally known as the “boneyard” at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona.

The so called DEW that are in the fake news, are illegal by treaty in space.

The Outer Space Treaty was considered by the Legal Subcommittee in 1966 and agreement was reached in the General Assembly in the same year ( resolution 2222 (XXI)). The Treaty was largely based on the Declaration of Legal Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, which had been adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 1962 (XVIII) in 1963, but added a few new provisions. The Treaty was opened for signature by the three depository Governments (the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States of America) in January 1967, and it entered into force in October 1967. The Outer Space Treaty provides the basic framework on international space law, including the following principles:

States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner;

This is not real, in spite of your lying eyes.