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At best this is a program designed to get some ABM money into the Air Force budget and to long-time grifter Boeing. At worst this is a cover for a system designed to attack ground targets, which could violate international law preventing the use of lasers against ground troops.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/Dec 19th 2005 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/
so much more humane!

at least with a laser we could (theoretically) simply melt exactly what we want to.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/Dec 19th 2005 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/
Aw heck, maybe we'll start seeing IBM's made out of chrome now :-).]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/they are killing civillians in iraq on a daily basis.
even if there were terrorists in between them, int. law would still forbid any attack.

but back to the topic: those lasers are surely a rather precise and relatively cheap alternative to common bombs. no more consumable material and it works "hundreds of miles away", so you would never see that airplane comming.
but that was surely never ever in their minds. yeah, sure.
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Thank God we don't need the permission from those UN racists to look to our security.
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how many 747s were shot down with missles so far? how many passenger aircrafts ever?
US government surly knows how to scare people and use that "fear" to control them.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/
Don't need UN approval? Just wait till china and india start kicking your butt.

finally, "thank god"? there is no god, you moron from stone age! why don't you grow up?]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/
July 27, 1955
Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die

September 5, 1983
Korean Flight 007 - 269 dead (shot down by the Soviets)

2001
Russian passenger Tu-154 airliner hit by the payload of a Ukrainian ground-to-air missile

11/1/00
Russian-built passenger plane exploded and crashed shortly after takeoff Tuesday night in northern Angola, killing all 48 aboard, (cause missle)

Just a few. A Google search should also illustrate dozens of near misses also on commercial aircraft.

BTW, I coudn;t agree more with Phreak's view. The bloody United Nations has coddled terrorists and encouraged those regimes to murder millions.

In any event, any "tool" which kills a terrorist (or anyone giving them aid and comfort, for that matter) is fine in my book.

Stones and nukes included. :)]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/
Most ballistic missiles are used for destroying large targets at long distances. This allows a window in the boost phase where the missile is slow and vulnerable to attack.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/Dec 19th 2005 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/Dec 19th 2005 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/16/first-light-for-the-new-boeing-anti-missile-airborne-laser/First off, I saw video of the test and it works. Actually very well.

To the comment on the first post about the system having a "limited range", or having to aim so quick that it didn't "loose" the target????

Lasers - being made of light - Traveling at the "speed of light" and not being subject to gravity...
Have an infinate range and don't have to worry about a conventional rocket "speeding" away from it.

Come on, think about your posts before you submit.
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