[ez]

The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and State Council have "specially allocated" $10 billion to implement a strategic request by the Ministry of National Defense and armed services General Staff for additional high-tech and strategic nuclear weapons, the Hong Kong Tai Yang Bao newspaper reports.

Military specialists in Beijing, adds Tai Yang Bao, believe production of the high-tech weapons will begin soon. The new weapons will include supersonic bombers, extra-long-range modified anti-warship missiles, sky-wave and ground-wave over-the-horizon radars, as well as tactical air defense laser weapons and shore-to-warship laser cannon weapons.

[gitmo]

I had heard the Russians had been working on this. There was a special on the Discovery Channel about it a few weeks ago.

[fiftymegaton]

Even if the Chinese have laser weapons I doubt very much that they could hit a target traveling at 13000 mph with it. At least not for a couple decades(I would think).

[RugerM77]

I certainly am not alleging anything-But I just learned this week from reading "Reagan's War" that the Russians were able to laser hit the Challenger back in the early 80's. -Caused discomfort to the crew and screwed up some instruments-
Kind of throws cold water on the theory that NOTHING from the ground could hit it.

[DAnconia55]

Military specialists in Beijing, adds Tai Yang Bao, believe production of the high-tech weapons will begin soon. The new weapons will include supersonic bombers, extra-long-range modified anti-warship missiles, sky-wave and ground-wave over-the-horizon radars, as well as tactical air defense laser weapons and shore-to-warship laser cannon weapons

Hi. I think the Chinese are the greatest military threat we face. But....

Do you have any concept of optics?
There's no way the Chinese could have hit an object over the US with a focused beam weapon, through 4,000 miles of atmosphere.

We couldn't do it, even in my most wet dream. And I personally believe we have ALL KINDS of black projects - some many decades - in advance of general knowledge technology.

And I'm not so sure (And am too lazy to bother calculating) whether they could even SEE an object at that height given the curvature of the Earth...

[Timesink]

and shore-to-warship laser cannon weapons.

Columbia wasn't a boat.