re: #90 jamesfirecat

Yeah that’s what I want a man who proudly stands by military spending on pie in the sky projects!

Pie in the sky project? As far as I’m concerned it was brilliant and has borne successful tests.

US ‘Star Wars’ lasers bring down ballistic missile

The US this week achieved a goal that has eluded it since Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars programme by knocking out a ballistic missile using a high-powered laser beam mounted on a plane.

The successful test was carried out yesterday in California, the US Missile Defence Agency (MDA) said, making real what had previously been confined to the realms of science fiction.

The plane uses a combination of lasers to lock on to the missile and track its trajectory, and then bring it down with a single shot fired from the nose turret, all in less than 12 seconds.