Sunday, 30. March 2003
Topic: W A R - on March 30, 2003 at 9:17:43 AM CEST
Dawn of the Airborne Laser
The Air Force is readying the first airborne laser weapon, which could be used to intercept Scud missiles.
In a starkly sanitized clean room, a stocky Lockheed Martin engineer wearing a shower cap and laboratory smock scuttles in and about black plastic curtains, talking with near-manic intensity and flashing his bright eyes and wry smile. "Want to see something really cool?" asks Paul Shattuck as he yanks back the curtains, revealing a maze of psychedelically colored optics and black anodized metal hardware. "This," he says, "is what they call the Wall of Fire."
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