http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/ Engadget Comments for Skyguard defense laser protects humans, kills missiles http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/we need this system! the Hamas terrorists attack us evry day and we are helpless.
please help us! its so terrible!]]>Dec 29th 2008 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/
And, what fun! I never thought missile command was real - apparently it is!]]>Jul 14th 2006 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/
Dunno if it could kill a re-entry vehicle, though. An RV would probably be going way to fast.]]>Jul 14th 2006 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/That would be neat if your house was near the outfield of a baseball diamond. Vaporize the baseballs before they smash your windows.]]>Jul 14th 2006 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/
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and is old news

the Isreali and US Army actually arent funding this, this is a last ditch attempt by Northop-Grumman to find a buyer for this tech. there marketing it to airports becasue you know airports in Ohio have sucided terrorist jetliners threats that need that DHS terrorism money.

SkyGuard 2000 coming soon to STUB'S FIELD Airport, Ohio
paided for by your taxes dollars given by your department of homeland pork spenders.

http://vwt.d2g.com:8081/2006/07/lasers_and_missiles_the_us_and.html]]>Jul 14th 2006 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/
Back to hand to hand combat! Woo hoo! Time to catch up on those Ramboo movies!]]>Jul 14th 2006 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_subculture#Welcoming_Our_New_Overlords]]>Jul 14th 2006 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/
BTW sorry if I annoyed you.]]>Jul 14th 2006 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/
Civilian airliners carry transponders to identify them to air traffic control and have very different radar signatures than military aircraft or missiles anyway. Military aircraft have Identification Friend or Foe systems installed that allow friendly radars to identify and not shoot down friendly aircraft. These fall under the category of Extremely Fucking Secure National Defense Secrets, so if our enemies or terrorists have cracked the system (they haven't) we have a whole fucking ton of stuff to worry about that's a lot more important than some laser system that only fires at missiles.

Never forget that the people who design these systems are smarter than you. And thank God for that.]]>Jul 14th 2006 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/I say no more pissing around doing wars half-a$$ed. Either let the nukes fly or scrap em!
$#!T or get off the pot. ]]>Jul 14th 2006 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 14th 2006 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/
There has been co-operation in development of a previous version of this system, formerly called Nautilus, between the US DoD and Israel. Costs proved too dear at one point, so Israel abandoned it at the time. Although the latest events may change that.

By the way it works by heating the kinetic or ballistic projectiles, thereby distabelising their flight paths and shattering them mid-air (as I understand: mainly due to mounting air-friction caused by the distablisation at extremely high speeds)]]>Jul 14th 2006 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 15th 2006 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/
Anyhow, "laser system" hey... How about a defensive move such as CarbonNano Mirror on all missiles. Put some smarts in it like the one MIT is creating (http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/mit-researchers-create-photo-detecting-fibers/) and I can now reflect it back to its orgin!

Here's my free consultation to the MDA guys...]]>Jul 15th 2006 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/
TURN THE KEY SIR :pulls out pistol:"]]>Jul 15th 2006 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/
Well, if you live in L.A., you just might...

North Korea, anyone?

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Have a quiet chat with Kim Jung-Il and tell him he's a complete ar5e, and to cut it out. Then tell the Israelis and Palestinians that nothing will EVER happen while they're shooting each other, and to act like intelligent grown-ups instead of 2 year olds.

Sad to see so much money being spent on weapons rather than on helping people survive.]]>Jul 16th 2006 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/]]>Jul 16th 2006 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 17th 2006 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/
Sad to see so much money being wasted on sub-par public education, rather than helping people avoid public rectal-cranial inversions.]]>Jul 17th 2006 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Jul 17th 2006 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/
I laughed out loud at your comments on another thread - the one to do with Skype being cracked in China. It's a bit of a disappointment to me now to see that you would be top of the dangerous cocks and dicks list.

]]>Jul 17th 2006 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/I want to make a picture or text in the sky with laser.
please give me informations abuat it.
Thanks]]>Jul 22nd 2006 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/Oct 25th 2006 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/14/skyguard-defense-laser-protects-humans-kills-missiles/
While RacetrackOwner's retort may have been a little harsh, it was 100% true. You are just showing your lack of intelligence. There are certain problems that will never ever be solved through diplomacy, even though diplomacy should always be at least attempted. Blindly believing it will work eventually was France's folly in WW2. In fact, France still blindly believed in a diplomatic solution with Hitler WHILE he was invading! Some people are just morons, and there is no excusing their ignorance.

Now back to the statement I quoted from you... this system being developed is NOT a weapon. In fact, it is a DEFENSE system. So your complaint isn't even relevant here. Go cry about a tree or something.


To some of the other comments/questions regarding technical aspects:

The newer systems under development (HELLADS) do NOT require double-decker bus-sized batteries, and in fact are extremely small and portable. They can hit anything down to the size of RPG's (at least), and this has been tested flawlessly. They are very fast, although I'm not sure how fast. I saw once somewhere that THEL could take out 10+ targets per minute, and that was a decade ago. There is no "video game junkie" pointing and clicking at targets on a screen. It is 100% automatic. This is very old technology. Look up CIWS. It's been around for decades now, and works well, although it's a projectile based system, and has a very short range. Finally, There is no way you can mistake a missile, mortar, rpg, etc for a plane or vice versa. They aren't even in the same league. If this is also designed to take out enemy aircraft, then we have to make sure our IFF system is working. We lost at least one plane in Iraq due to a failed IFF transponder. However, it isn't the laser system that is the problem here....since it wasn't even involved.

As for the Star Wars program.....you're WAY off-base on that one. Star Wars was a nickname given to President Reagan's 1980's plan to develop and deploy space-based weapons and defense systems. Lasers were to be eventually deployed as well. The USA and USSR signed a treaty banning missile defense systems (this is not the same as the treaty banning the militarization of space, which China has just ruined by testing an anti-satellite missile). Both countries kept their word on the missile defense ban, until the USSR stopped existing. That treaty is no longer valid, and no treaty has been signed with any other nation regarding missile defense systems. Russia is included in the "any other nation" category, since it is NOT the USSR. Russia was recently invited to enjoy protection under our missile defense shield and declined, opting instead to kick and scream some more and throw an international fit. Wah.]]>Jul 27th 2007 11:44AM