U.S. hails airborne laser as weapons milestone (Reuters)

[Eugene]

U.S. hails airborne laser as weapons milestone

By Jim Wolf
ReutersReuters

Oct 27, 2006 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Pentagon's Missile
Defense Agency on Friday hailed what he described as epochal progress
toward putting a high-energy laser aboard a modified Boeing Co. 747 to zap
ballistic missiles that could be fired by North Korea and Iran.

But the Pentagon's former top weapons tester cast doubt on project, calling
it far from militarily effective and perhaps easily defeated by a simple
countermeasure.

The so-called Airborne Laser has been developed at a cost so far of about
$3.5 billion with the aim of destroying, at the speed of light, all classes
of ballistic missiles shortly after their launch. If successful in flight
testing and deployed, it would become part of an emerging U.S. anti-missile
shield that also includes land- and sea-based interceptor missiles.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. Real Genius

someone needs to put a big jiffypop
in the white house

( am allowed to say that?? :-))))))

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. One thing we are still very good at.

KILLING PEOPLE.