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Old 2002-11-06, 12:05 PM   [Ignore Me] #1
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After reading this article all I can think is that the Future we read about as kids really is right now. This is just amazing.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/1...eut/index.html

Two soldiers stand next to the Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser beam director


WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Army used a high-energy laser to shoot down an artillery shell in mid-flight on Tuesday in a defense industry breakthrough, the Army and the manufacturer said.

The Army and TRW Inc., which developed the weapon, said in a joint statement that the laser tracked, locked onto and fired a burst of concentrated light energy photons at the speeding shell over the White Sands test range in New Mexico.

"Seconds later, at a point well short of its intended destination, the projectile was destroyed," the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command said.

The Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL) is being developed by TRW for the Army and the Israeli Defense Ministry. Lasers have been used in past tests at the range to shoot down slower Katyusha Rockets similar to those fired at Israel by militant guerrilla groups in neighboring Lebanon.

"This shootdown shifts the paradigm for defensive capabilities. We've shown that even an artillery projectile hurtling through the air at supersonic speed is no match for a laser," said Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Cosumano, head of the missile defense command.

"Tactical high energy lasers have the capacity to change the face of the battlefield," he added.
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Old 2002-11-06, 12:16 PM   [Ignore Me] #2
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Old 2002-11-06, 12:45 PM   [Ignore Me] #3
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Great, as long as that much effort is only put into defensive technology.

I don't want to be staring down any sort of mass-techno-destruction weapon barrels in the near future

Great stuff though
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Old 2002-11-07, 07:43 PM   [Ignore Me] #4
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We got Death Star?
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Old 2002-11-07, 07:52 PM   [Ignore Me] #5
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A Deathstar? Where did I parked my X-Wing?
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Old 2002-11-07, 09:01 PM   [Ignore Me] #6
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Reminds me of that movie. Of course, i can't remember the name of it.
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Old 2002-11-11, 02:42 PM   [Ignore Me] #7
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Star Wars?
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Old 2002-11-13, 01:44 PM   [Ignore Me] #8
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And until now we herd nothing of this....makes you wounder what else we are cooking up.....
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Old 2002-11-13, 04:21 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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Pretty cool stuff. I too hope they concentrate on defensive weapons...

For those who didn't get the "We got death !" joke head to http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/atom_1403


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Old 2002-11-13, 05:01 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/11/05/39145.html
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Old 2002-11-13, 08:14 PM   [Ignore Me] #11
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Hey Firefrenzy, how reliable and or respected is Pravda as a news organization. I am not farmilliar with it.
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