Don't think they haven't thought about it.

Even after spending $5 BILLION dollars developing it over the last 16 years, the Pentagon completely defunded the R&D program in 2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1

Why??

Because they learned it can easily be defeated....with a $500 or less MIRROR.




You just can't make this stuff up.....

They'll be tanks with a bunch of articulated arms like you see on lamps, holding mirrors like this around them on all sides. Then some clown will come by with a brick of mass destruction.

Aw yeah!

Only terrorists will have mirrors.

and you should be ashamed of yourself, young lady!

Very good!

Checkmate!

re-reflect off the original target's mirror. Heck, just make the surfaces of all your assets nice and shiny. Problem solved.

I wonder if you can get chrome in cammo?

and less time on feeding people

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and will drop reflective chaff, and thick chemical smoke


For every measure there is a counter-measure...

Wire grid -- for micro waves
metallic -- for tasers

back to chain mail.

the Pentagon has just announced a multi-billion project that will throw rocks at the mirrors, breaking them so the lasers can do their job.

i.e guns and cannons.

'nuff said.

The anti-mirror tank will be armed with the LockheedMartin laser plus a 120mm smoothbore cannon. First the gun will fire an armor-piercing, fin-stabilized, discarding-sabot round (labeled APFSDS) and once it's penetrated the mirrors, the laser will ignite and engage the vehicle.

And like the little boy in The Emperor's New Clothes who announced to one and all that the emperor was walking down the street with his dick hanging out, the sergeant major of the first battalion to be issued this wonder weapon will ask, "if we have to shoot the target with an antitank cannon before we shoot it with the antitank laser, what the fuck do we need the laser for?"

only to lesser people.

As one rather militaristic Evangelist not too long ago suggested, "If Jesus were alive today, he would be a Navy Seal!"

Though I remember seeing the quote maybe a couple of years ago, I do not remember the source.

OK, this has got to be the creepiest Jesus drawing ever.

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Given the size of that truck trailer, they still have some work to do for those airborne options.

As more nations get nukes, especially unstable ones, this will become a necessity.

got them. I also say it's safe to say that NK is by far the most unstable nation on the planet (or at least tied with Canada), and they have yet to launch any nukes toward anyone. Even they know that doing so would just mean their demise.

It's inevitable. Since we can't stop them, we need the means to swat nukes out if the sky.

Even if a country were to invite it's own destruction, they may irrationally launch anyways to either get the first shot in or because they believe that they're unstoppable. Irrational leaders like Kim Jung-Un are unpredictable, and may suddenly launch their nukes on a crazy whim.

There's also the possibility of rogue generals, terrorist coups, etc. It never hurts to be overly cautious, especially when millions could die.

Like it or not thats the world today. The Chinese have already written about using the moon as a military base. Projecting their navy outward, claiming islands from other countries, etc. The Russians? Well, what ARENT they doing?

I mean certainly we can afford at least 75% of the yearly national budget for this.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking

"Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?"

if someone had posted this yet... If not I was gonna do it... dam you!!!

http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/all.htm

The Defense Department was backing laser/MASER research in the 1950s, and some early success in the 1960s led to a flying laser platform, the Airborne Laser Laboratory, by the mid-1970s.

One of the more interesting and annoying things about airborne lasers is that they generate the massive amounts of power needed through chemical reactions very similar to those used by hypergolic rockets. But in this case, venting the massive amounts of high-temperature gas in just one direction would instantly destabilize the laser and possibly damage the aircraft and crew. So the ALL and its more shadowy brethren have always had the problem of how to vent a rocket's worth of corrosive hot gas in all directions at once. I have no idea how that works.

Most of Reagan's Star Wars horse-poop was simply a cash handout to contractors for them to re-write the proposals they had already written in the 1960s and '70s. The reason why there is such a thing as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is because the U.S. was preparing to deploy an ABM system in the early 1970s, long before Saint Ronnie ballooned the federal deficit to re-build it in his own Hollywood image.

The bottom line is that unless some truly dramatic advance has come about, a laser-toting aircraft has to drag tons and tons of propellant--or reactant--with it, it fires with an infrared signature large enough to be seen from space, it has to keep itself precisely trained on a ridiculously fast target, it requires a direct line of sight to the target and, oh yes, rain and clouds are a problem, but who needs to worry about that in the sky?

boondoggle.

They will persuade Pentagon to buy this crap for billions, then keep selling them missiles since it won't work outside the lab.

of eventually getting their hands on these.

We're number one USA, USA, USA, USA.

We're number one in invasions, warmongering, death, destruction, spying, incarcerations, and spreading worldwide terror.

We do that and we'll be set.

That would be bad.