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  • DragonFire laser weapon can hit a coin from a kilometer away

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 25 08:00:37 2024
    DragonFire laser weapon can hit a coin from a kilometer away for
    around $13 a shot

    Lasers can accurately track and destroy aerial targets

    Forward-looking: Laser weapons have steadily progressed in recent
    years, with the US successfully testing an aerial defense system that
    is theoretically more cost-effective than using physical ammunition.
    The UK has now achieved a similar milestone, suggesting that lasers
    could potentially replace missiles in certain situations.

    The UK has successfully tested a laser weapon that is highly accurate
    and cost-effective.

    https://www.techspot.com/news/101618-dragonfire-laser-weapon-can-hit-coin-kilometer-away.html

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Jan 25 15:02:23 2024
    On 2024-01-25, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    DragonFire laser weapon can hit a coin from a kilometer away for
    around $13 a shot

    I'm remembering that 80s Val Kilmer movie, Real Genius.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Thu Jan 25 10:00:29 2024
    On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:02:23 GMT, Retrograde
    <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    I'm remembering that 80s Val Kilmer movie, Real Genius.

    The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), nicknamed the "Star Wars
    program", was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect
    the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles). The concept was announced on March 23, 1983, by President
    Ronald Reagan,[1] a vocal critic of the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD), which he described as a "suicide pact".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

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