A U.S. high-powered airborne laser weapon shot down a ballistic missile in the first successful test of a futuristic directed energy weapon, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said on Friday.
The agency said in a statement the test took place at 8:44 p.m. PST (11:44 p.m. EST) on Thursday /0444 GMT on Friday) at Point Mugu's Naval Air Warfare Center-Weapons Division Sea Range off Ventura in central California.
"The Missile Defense Agency demonstrated the potential use of directed energy to defend against ballistic missiles when the Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) successfully destroyed a boosting ballistic missile" the agency said.
"It seems like a kind of arms race. You have people becoming more and more
assertive about including dogs everywhere and then..."
-
"... on the other side, people becoming more and more assertive about their
resistance to having dogs everywhere."
Says Jessica Pierce, "a bioethicist stud...
2 hours ago
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment