Posted on 07/01/2026 3:23:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
"As of today, no country has the ability to mount attacks in space. We must be the leading country in the world with this capability," said Katz.
Israel is developing space lasers to carry out attacks above the Earth, Defense Minister Israel Katz said Monday.
“One of the central goals that the prime minister and I set is that we are recruiting the best minds,” he said in a briefing with military reporters. “As of today, no country has the ability to mount attacks in space. We must be the leading country in the world with this capability.”
“If we achieve this, it will ensure the advantage of deterrence, of the ability to attack, destroy, and all of the other matters, versus our enemies with large resources,” he added.
Last Thursday, Katz said Israel was committed to becoming the leading player with capabilities to attack from space. But his latest statement was the first time he had specifically mentioned space lasers.
Israel is already a leading country in this field, having developed Iron Beam as a land-based space laser. During a recent visit to Elbit, The Jerusalem Post both witnessed and was informed about a project to enable fighter jets to fire lasers in the future.
DELIVERED TO the IDF late last year, the Iron Beam system marks a historic milestone – the world’s first operational laser defense platform capable of neutralizing rockets, drones, and mortars at a fraction of the cost of traditional interceptors. (credit: The Defense Ministry/Handout via REUTERS)
During the briefing,...
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Good thing they’re on our side-aren’t they?
Israel über alles.
MTG was right LOL
MTG was right LOL
Why am I thinking Mel Brooks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZhtT-dUyo You had to know this was coming.
The primary country involved in military space race developments is the United States. Widely recognized by experts as the most advanced globally in the development, testing, and potential deployment of high-energy laser weapons and space-based anti-satellite capabilities.
Other nations.....the United Kingdom, France, India, and Japan are actively pouring funds into military space systems and directed-energy research. Russia has heavily researched directed-energy weapons and successfully tested anti-satellite capabilities.
My first thought LOL
Israel has many defense capabilities, a few of which we saw vividly demonstrated (like achieving full control of Iranian skies in a single day).
But it is uncomforting when defense officials (either in Jerusalem of WashedupDC) blab any of them to the media
STFU should be required! Let enemies find out if they attack again. When they don’t have time to develop counter measures. NOT on instagram or in the NewYorkSlimes, for Heaven’s sakes!
There’s plenty of players developing laser weapons. The big defense primes are all involved. US and Israel working together is not unusual. nLight and Applied Energetics are a couple of small firms that supply the primes or would like to.
Test out the equipment taking out Candace & Tucker
Heaven forbid that you defeat their ideas with your ideas.
It's much more civilized to kill your political adversaries.
That’s what I came in here for.
Beat you to it. See post 6.
Because I spent 5 minutes looking for the darn .gif file.
“Good thing they’re on our side-aren’t they?”
they are not on anyone’s side except their own, and everyone would be wise to remember this.
unfortunately Space lasers are a bad thing for the entire planet because they need a lot of power and the easiest way to get it is using Nuclear-Detonation Pumped Lasers
Born out of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in the 1970s and 80s, this approach proposed using the explosive energy of a small thermonuclear device to pump an X-ray laser. The rapid burst of X-rays from the detonation would travel through lasing rods, creating directional, destructive beams.
we already have enough problems without nukes in space.
When is Israel going to be forced to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ?
I think now would be a good time.
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I would like to see the Israelis become self sufficient to the point where they don’t ‘need’ my tax dollars.
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