• Question: DO you think that lasers will benifit the milarity in futher upcoming events?

    Asked by maxie to Mike, Pip, Tim, Tom on 4 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      The Americans were trying to build an airborne laser to shoot down enemy missiles, which was built into the front of a Jumbo jet. I think that project’s been abandoned recently because it didn’t work very well.
      We already have laser-guided bombs, and I’m sure that there are other things that have been developed that are being kept secret from us.

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      relatively un-secretive military things include what Tim said plus laser guided aiming on guns and things used to ‘dazzle’ the enemy.

      I’m not a big supporter of the military though, so I would rather that lasers weren’t used to their benefit.

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