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To: Termite_Commander
During the flight test, the lasers will be fired at a military NKC-135 aircraft with a picture of a ballistic missile painted on its fuselage...

What??

4 posted on 03/22/2006 11:32:52 AM PST by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
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To: bruin66
What??

North Korea is now painting their missles to look like airborne cows to fool the system. :)
6 posted on 03/22/2006 11:37:53 AM PST by Daus
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To: bruin66

The laser will be low power and cause no damage. The idea is to test the laser targeting system. By doing it on a moving NKC-135, the test can be repeated many times.


9 posted on 03/22/2006 11:40:23 AM PST by Bigs from Michigan
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To: bruin66
Knowledge points laid out for this year include testing of the solid-state lasers for missile tracking and atmospheric-distortion correction.

Does it make sense now?

10 posted on 03/22/2006 11:40:50 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: bruin66

"picture of a ballistic missile"

Computers must be used for aiming at the shape of an ballistic missile...?


17 posted on 03/22/2006 11:48:04 AM PST by JeffersonRepublic.com (There is no truth in the news, and no news in the truth.)
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