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DARPA in bid for shark-portable laser rayguns
Flimsy strato-robot cover story widely discounted
By Lewis Page
Posted in Science, 11th November 2009 10:23 GMT
DARPA, the Pentagon tech bureau which has conferred upon a suffering human race such boons as the internet, the stealth bomber and the night-vision goggle, has finally made a bid to achieve that which humanity has yearned for above all other things. We refer, of course, to a laser weapon sufficiently portable to be carried on the head of a shark.
The military mayhem-profs refer to their new scheme as Fibre Laser Pulse Source, or FILPS. According to a recently-released presolicitation document (Word docx format (https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=6bbc58e8e18feb603afbbe7feede4023) – you may need to download add-ons to read):
The FILPS program will culminate in a UAV compatible system that generates 10-mJ, sub-ns duration optical pulses at a 25-kHz repetition rate. The output pulse characteristics, including phase stability, pulse jitter, and laser beam quality, should be sufficient to enable efficient pulse energy scaling to the 100-mJ level via coherent combining.
Of course it could be, and probably is designed for UAV’s, and will eventually and inevitably be used against innocent people who will end up as "collateral damage"
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The Heritage Foundation must be DESTROYED.
I pray someone is eaten while testing out this new weapon, in fact, I hope it’s an officer or an analyst from HF.
INSECTS!
Well, they probably would never test it out on our own people, especially officers
But they have tested Active Denial Systems on the enlisted
“developed for the Air Force by Raytheon…”, uhm hum…quite a few unsolved murders in the vicinity of their TX plant near Dallas (where else?) involving those connected with Raytheon. Several very disturbing videos by following your link, John. hmmmmm, Israel’s weapons of the future…poor Arabic peoples.
Murders? I’m gonna have to find more on that. Thanks
I wouldn’t be too sure about that.
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“In July 1946, the United States conducted a test of atomic weapons code named Operation CROSSROADS. From then until the test ban treaty in 1963, the Department of Defense and earlier agencies conducted 235 nuclear detonations, involving at least 210,000 military participants—dubbed atomic veterans—in 19 test series. Fifty years later, scientists, veterans advocates, health and environmental advocates, military spokespersons, politicians, and veterans and their families debate whether and to what extent exposure to the nuclear tests affected the participants health. ”
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5428&page=4
“The truth is: The Department of Defense knew the anthrax vaccine was experimental before they started forcing the troops to take it in 1998.
In October of 2004, after 6 years of the Department of Defense forcing service members to take the anthrax vaccine, a Federal Judge ruled that the order was indeed illegal.
According to the Government’s conservative estimates, more than 4,000 healthy soldiers have been harmed by the anthrax vaccine with different symptoms ranging from convulsions, blood clots, heart problems, extreme fatigue and muscle weakness, severe migraines, paralysis, spontaneous miscarriages, tumors, tremors, loss of hair, loss of eyesight, loss of memory – and even death. Acknowledgement of these serious side affects is included in the vaccine’s FDA approved product label. ”
http://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/anthrax/airolastatment.aspx
Just what we need is more weapons, billions more spent in their developement, and few real uses when their done.
Guns v butter. Guns always win I guess
Gotta run