Energy Weapons In Air and Missile Defense
The US military, along with various defense contractors, is busy developing better ways of defending against attacks from the air. High energy lasers have proven themselves against planes and missiles, and now Boeing has a low-energy laser it is proving on testing grounds.Last month, a small robotic plane flew into the skies over New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range. Tracking the drone was an experimental Humvee, equipped with a laser. The real-life ray gun then took aim at the drone, and began blasting. Soon, the drone had a hole burnt through it -- and was crashing down to the desert....what makes this test, held last month, a little different is that the laser was small, and low-powered. Which makes the ray gun, at least in theory, fairly easy to fit into an existing combat vehicle.Combine various energy weapons with advanced robotic weapons, smart bombs, and nano-weapons, and the battlefield of the future will begin to seem very strange to contemporary minds. On top of all that, the eye in the sky sees all.
...The laser-equipped Humvee is a modified version of the Army's Avenger air defense system. It uses more traditional means -- eight missiles -- to take out low-flying targets. So why use the ray gun? "Laser Avenger, unlike a conventional weapon, can fire its laser beam without creating missile exhaust or gun flashes that would reveal its position," Boeing's Gary Fitzmire contends. "As a result, Laser Avenger can neutralize these UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] threats while keeping our troops safe." Wired
What happens to the peace-loving populations of the Earth when a new Fuhrer takes control of these advanced weapons systems? We may find out soon.
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posted by al fin at 11:18 am
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You'd think a crash course in these would be an Israeli priority. I believe their new anti-rocket system is missile-based though.
The best thing we can do is to spread the knowledge of these systems, and the expertise and equipment required to make them, so that counter-measures can be quickly and easily made as soon as the threat shows itself.
The average IQ of arab countries is 85. There is an excess of cannon fodder and a shortage of creative engineers and scientists.
The average IQ of Israel is in the 90s, but with greater variance due to genetic variance of the population. Israel has plenty of creative engineers and scientists.
We know the Palestinian fraction of the arab world is willing to die to the last woman and child to try to exterminate Israeli Jews.
When the will of Israelis to protect themselves is as strong as the desire of Palestinians to exterminate them, perhaps Israel will set its own engineers and scientists loose to devise more efficient weapons systems.
I am not looking forward to that day, but there is a good chance that it is coming.
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