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. "You've demonstrated capability on the ground," Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering said at a ceremony at which the aircraft was rolled out of a Wichita, Kansas, hangar where it has been undergoing modifications. "Not since that time nearly twenty-two hundred years ago, when Archimedes reflected the sun's rays to set the Roman fleet on fire off Syracuse, has the world seen a weapon that puts fresh meaning into the phrase 'in real time'." "Let's do it now in flight," Obering told employees of Boeing, the prime contractor, and chief subcontractors Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. at the event.Isn't that cool? ARCHIMEDES AND SHIT!! WOW!! wait--didn't MythBusters prove that never happened? ANYWAY... From a massive 747 this laser can pick off a missile, or probably a target on the ground, without a single person getting in harms way! Well, unless you count anyone near or in the target on the ground. Why, this thing would be the real-world equivallent to the Death Star!! Wait--the Death Star was owned and operated by the Empire--the bad guys--you don't think... OH MY GOD, AMERICA IS THE BAD GUYS!! I never saw it coming!
Orignal From: AIRBORNE LASER WEAPON, US AIR FORCE'S NEW TOY
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