[Phoebe From China]

Sounds awesome.

[arthurus]

I hope that at the same time they are also working on defense against these things. “The rest of the world is trying to catch up...”

[Hardraade]

A Grrrail, you say?

[Phoebe From China]

Sounds awesome.

[BlueDragon]

Sound like one could cut with it too. ‘Ya never know when you might need to cut some steel plate. They should try it. One might as well use what one’s got.

[TChad]

That’s why, according to Danger Room's Spencer Ackerman (who is reporting from the Office of Naval Research’s science and tech conference this week), naval program managers are excited about their FEL.

Why is Spencer Ackerman still employed as a reporter after his Journolist posts were made public? Ackerman is the one who told his colleagues to pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

Is this the sort of person we want around American high tech weaponry?

[agere_contra]

Waiting for the Shark-Mounted Free Electron Laser.

[Charles Martel]

Cool. Now scale it up a bit and fit it to all four Iowa-class ships. Three per turret.

[Celtic Conservative]

Here is a picture of the navy's first laser ship captain:

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